Microfluidic preparation of thin film composite hollow fiber membrane modules for water nanofiltration: Up-scaling, reproducibility and MOF based layers

Esteras-Saz, Javier (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Paseta, Lorena ; Echaide-Górriz, Carlos ; Malankowska, Magdalena ; Luque-Alled, José M. (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Zornoza, Beatriz (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Téllez, Carlos (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Coronas, Joaquín (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: Background
The commercialization of thin film composite (TFC) hollow fiber (HF) membranes remains challenging owing to issues associated with membrane manufacturing.

Methods
TFC membranes were synthesized by microfluidic interfacial polymerization of polyamide (PA) on polysulfone hollow fiber (HF) membrane modules. A total of 33 HF membrane modules were prepared with different number of HFs (from 1 to 25) and different lengths (from 10 to 50 cm). They were evaluated in a nanofiltration operation in terms of water permeance and rose Bengal (RB) and MgSO4 rejections.

Significant findings
Among the 33 modules, 73% showed RB rejections higher than 95%, while 36% of the modules reached rejections above 99%. During the membrane synthesis, different parameters, such as PA monomer concentration, residence time and reaction time, were studied. As a result, the amount of monomer was reduced by ca. 80%. The versatility of microfluidics allowed incorporating hydrophilic metal-organic framework (MOF) ZIF-93 to produce HF modules with PA/MOF bilayered membranes (a continuous layer of MOF between the support and the PA film) which led to an important enhancement of the water permeance from 1.3 (bare PA membrane) to 5.3 L·m−2·h−1·bar−1 (PA/ZIF-93 HF membrane), maintaining RB rejection above 95%.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1016/j.jtice.2023.105063

Año: 2023

Publicado en: Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers 150 (2023), 105063 [10 pp.]
ISSN: 1876-1070

Factor impacto JCR: 5.5 (2023)

Categ. JCR: ENGINEERING, CHEMICAL rank: 31 / 170 = 0.182 (2023) - Q1 - T1

Factor impacto CITESCORE: 9.1 - Chemistry (all) (Q1) - Chemical Engineering (all) (Q1)

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.849 - Chemistry (miscellaneous) (Q1) - Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous) (Q1)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/T68-23R
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/862330/EU/Open Innovation Test Bed for nano-enabled Membranes/INNOMEM
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO-AEI/PID2019-104009RB-I00-AEI-10.13039-501100011033

Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)

Área (Departamento): Área Ingeniería Química (Dpto. Ing.Quím.Tecnol.Med.Amb.)