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Green Preparation of a Carboxymethyl Cellulose-Coated Membrane for Highly Efficient Separation of Crude Oil-In-Water Emulsions
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posted on 2022-05-26, 20:13 authored by Qing Sun, Bin Xiang, Peng Mu, Jian LiDeveloping
high-performance membranes is an extremely significant
strategy to combat increasing severe oil pollution. However, most
of the previously reported superwettable membranes have been inevitably
involved with the use of toxic solvents and complicated preparation
processes. In addition, most of them lacked the capacity of separating
crude oil-in-water emulsions. Herein, a facile and green strategy
is employed to fabricate a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) membrane
with a mixed suspension of PDA@ZIF-8 and carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC)
using water as a solvent via the vacuum filtration method. Combining
hydrophilic property with micro–nano-roughness, the CMC-PDA@ZIF-8-coated
PTFE membrane (CPZP membrane) exhibits excellent underwater superoleophobicity.
More importantly, the separation efficiency of various surfactant-stabilized
oil-in-water emulsions including crude oil/water emulsion is higher
than 99.2% with a flux up to 1306.5 L m–2 h–1, and the separation performance remains nearly the
same after 10 cycles. Moreover, outstanding underwater superoleophobic
and self-cleaning properties are maintained after long-distance sandpaper
abrasion and multiple bending tests. Meanwhile, its exceptional separation
performance is still maintained in harsh environments (3.5 wt % NaCl,
1 M HCl, 60 °C hot water) even after immersing it for 24 h. Therefore,
this green-prepared and high-performance membrane has tremendous application
prospects in treating oily wastewater.
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