A Comparison of the Effect of Cellulose Nanocrystals (CNCs) and Polyethylene Glycol (PEG) as Additives in Ultrafiltration Membranes (PES-UF): Characterization and Performance.

Amos Adeniyi, Gerald Oke Odo, Danae Gonzalez-Ortiz, Celine Pochat-Bohatier, Sandrine Mbakop, Maurice Stephen Onyango

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Article in Polymers, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Amos AdeniyiDepartment of Chemical, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria 0183, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-7186-9171

Gerald Oke OdoDepartment of Chemical, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria 0183, South Africa.

Danae Gonzalez-OrtizInstitut Européen des Membranes, IEM UMR-5635, Université de Montpellier, ENSCM, CNRS Place Eugène Bataillon, CEDEX 5, 34095 Montpellier, France.

Celine Pochat-BohatierInstitut Européen des Membranes, IEM UMR-5635, Université de Montpellier, ENSCM, CNRS Place Eugène Bataillon, CEDEX 5, 34095 Montpellier, France.ORCID 0000-0002-9053-2216

Sandrine MbakopDepartment of Chemical, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria 0183, South Africa.

Maurice Stephen OnyangoDepartment of Chemical, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria 0183, South Africa.

Tshwane University of Technology · ZAÉcole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier · FR

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Abstract

This work demonstrated the potential of CNC as a substitute for PEG as an additive in ultrafiltration membrane fabrication. Two sets of modified membranes were fabricated using the phase inversion technique, with polyethersulfone (PES) as the base polymer and 1-N-methyl-2 pyrrolidone (NMP) as the solvent. The first set was fabricated with 0.075 wt% CNC, while the second set was fabricated with 2 wt% PEG. All membranes were characterized using SEM, EDX, FTIR, and contact angle measurements. The SEM images were analyzed for surface characteristics using WSxM 5.0 Develop 9.1 software. The membranes were tested, characterized, and compared for their performance in treating both synthetic and real restaurant wastewater. Both membranes exhibited improved hydrophilicity, morphology, pore structure, and roughness. Both membranes also exhibited similar water flux for real and synthetic polluted water. However, the membrane prepared with CNC gave higher turbidity removal and COD removal when raw restaurant water was treated. The membrane compared well with the UF membrane containing 2 wt% PEG in terms of morphology and performance when synthetic turbid water and raw restaurant water were treated.

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CNCCODmorphologyPEGturbidityultrafiltration

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PMID37376282

DOI10.3390/polym15122636

PMCPMC10301009

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