Halloysite nanotube blended nanocomposite ultrafiltration membranes for reactive dye removal

Başak Keskin, Meltem Ağtaş, Türkan Ormancı-Acar, Türker Türken, Derya Y. Imer, Serkan Ünal, Yusuf Z. Menceloğlu, Tuğba Uçar-Demir, Ismail Koyuncu*

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Abstract

In this paper, ultrafiltration (UF) flat sheet membranes were manufactured by introducing two diverse halloysite nanotubes (HNT) size (5 μm and 63 μm) and five different (0, 0.63, 1.88, 3.13, 6.30 wt %) ratios by wet phase inversion. Some characterization methods which are contact angle, zeta potential, viscosity, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and Young's modulus measurements were used for ultrafiltration membranes. Synthetic dye waters which were Setazol Red and Reactive Orange were used for filtration performance tests. These dye solutions were filtered in three different pH conditions and three different temperature conditions for pH and temperature resistance to understand how flux and removal efficiency change. The best water permeability results were obtained as 190.5 LMH and 192 LMH, for halloysite nanotubes (HNT) sizes of 5 μm and 63 μm respectively. The best water and dye performance of UF membrane contains 1.88% w/w ratio of HNT, which showed increased water flux and dye flux of membranes according to different HNT concentrations including ultrafiltration membranes.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)271-283
Number of pages13
JournalWater Science and Technology
Volume83
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Jan 2021

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Keywords

  • Dye rejection
  • Flat-sheet membrane
  • Halloysite nanotubes
  • Ultrafiltration membrane

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