Abstract
A Polysulfone-Polyethylene glycol (PS/PEG) flat sheet membrane was prepared by phase inversion technique. Dimethyl Formamide (DMF) was utilized as a solvent and deionized water was utilized as the coagulant. Polyethylene glycol (PEG) of a various dose of PEG 2000 was utilized as the polymeric improvers and as a pore-forming agent in the casting mixture. The single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNTs), multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNTs), aluminum oxide (Al2O3) and copper oxide (CuO) nanoparticles (NPs) were utilized to improve the PS/PEG membrane performances. The characterizations of the neat PS, PS/PEG, PS/PEG/Al2O3 (M1) PS-PEG/CuO (M2), PS-PEG/SWCNTs (M3) and PS/PEG/MWCNTs (M14) nanocomposite (NC) modified membranes were acquired via Fourier-transform infrared analysis (FTIR), water contact angle estimation (WCA), scanning electron microscope (SEM), dynamic mechanical analyzer (DMA) and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). Enhanced Direct contact membrane distillation (EDCMD) unit was used for estimating the efficiency of the performance of the synthesized NC membranes via 60 °C feed synthetic water and/or saline oil field produced water samples containing salinities 123,14 mg/L. Adjusting the operational procedures and water characteristics confirmed a high salt rejection of 99.99% by the synthesized NC membranes. The maximum permeate flux achieved in the order of SWCNTs (20.91) > Al2O3 (19.92) > CuO (18.92) > MWCNT (18.20) (L/m2.h) with adjusted concentration of 0.5, 0.75, 0.75, 0.1 wt% compared with PS weight, i.e. 16%. The optimum operational circumstances comprised feed and permeate temperatures 60 °C and 20 °C, respectively. The achieved flux was 5.97 L/m2.h, using brine oil field produced water, via PS/PEG/SWCNTs membrane with 0.5 wt% of SWCNTs. Moreover, the membrane indicated sustaining performance stability in the 480 min continuous desalination testing, showing that the synthesized PS/PEG/SWCNTs NC modified membrane may be of magnificent potential to be activated in EDCMD procedure for water desalination.
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