Enlargement of oil droplets by using asymmetric structure of polyvinylidene fluoride membranes

Chiam, Chel Ken and R Azierah and Rosalam Sarbatly (2020) Enlargement of oil droplets by using asymmetric structure of polyvinylidene fluoride membranes. Fourth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology.

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Abstract

This paper presents a study for enlarging the oil droplets by using the polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membranes in a cross-flow membrane filtration system at the transmembrane pressures range between 0 and 4 bars. The PVDF membranes are fabricated by using phase inversion technique with different concentrations of coagulant ethanol (0 – 30 v/v%). Alkaline-surfactant-polymer (ASP) produced water is synthesised and tested as the feed solution with the oil droplets sized between 0.1 and 0.2 μm. Results show that the effect of the membrane formulations on the oil droplet coalescence is lesser as compared to the effect of the transmembrane pressures. More than 65% of the coalesced oil droplets in permeate having the diameters exceeding 1.0 μm although at least 50% of the membrane pores are larger than the oil droplets in the feed solutions. It is suggested that the tortuous structure of the membranes coalesced the oil droplets significantly.

Item Type: Newspaper Cutting
Keyword: Unsupervised learning , Supervised learning , Generative adversarial network , Feature extraction
Subjects: T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Department: FACULTY > Faculty of Engineering
Depositing User: NORAINI LABUK -
Date Deposited: 16 Apr 2020 11:55
Last Modified: 18 Nov 2020 15:04
URI: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/25316

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