Abstract
Flocculant played an important role in water treatment and sludge dewatering. It is imperative to design and synthesize an eco-friendly and biodegradable flocculant based on natural polymer. In the present work, a new amphoteric CMC-based flocculant, CMC-g-PDMC was synthesized via grafting DMC onto hydroxyl of CMC initiated by potassium persulfate under traditional heating condition. The optimal graft copolymerization condition was optimized by orthogonal experiment. The structure, morphology and thermostability of the obtained graft copolymer were characterized by measuring FT-IR, XRD, SEM and TGA analyzer, respectively. Moreover, comparing with the commercial flocculant PAM, PAC and CPAM, the dewatering capacity of municipal sludge was evaluated using CMC-g-PDMC by FCMC, SRF, SVI and light transmittance. It suggested that the flocculation to municipal sludge was related to the ion properties of the flocculant.
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