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Clean Technology for Volatile Organic Compound Removal from Wastewater

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Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are the main contaminants in industrial wastewater. It is well known that the presence of these compounds in water—even if they are at low concentration—causes a carcinogenic effect. At industrial scale, removal of these compounds is possible commercially. Membrane-based pervaporation (PV) promises to be clean energy system when it is accompanied with the membrane which has high affinity to VOCs. Compared to the other methods, PV offers some advantages. It is energy intensive, cost effective, clean, and modular technology. In this work, pristine and 20 wt.% and 30 % of ZSM-5-filled zeolite-loaded composite polydimethylsiloxane membranes are prepared and they are employed in pervaporation process to separate toluene from toluene–water mixtures. PV performance is evaluated as a function of flux and enrichment factor. ZSM-5 zeolite is selected as inorganic particle due to the highly hydrophobic characteristic. Pervaporation experiments are carried out at room temperature.

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Abbreviations

A :

Effective area of the membrane

J :

Flux

S d :

Degree of swelling

t :

Time

W d :

Weights of dry membrane

W p :

Total permeate weights of mixtures

W s :

Weights of swollen membrane

X a :

Concentration of the toluene in the feed mixture

Y a :

Concentration of the toluene in the permeate mixture

β :

Enrichment factor

PV:

Pervaporation

DCP:

Dicumylperoxide

EPDM:

Ethylene propylene diene monomer

PDMS:

Polydimethylsiloxane

PEBA:

Polyether-block-polyamide

PEG:

Polyethyleneglycol

PI:

Polyimide

PTFE:

Polytetrafluoroethylene

PTMSP:

Polytrimethylsilylpropyne

PVC:

Polyvinylchloride

UV:

Ultraviolet–visible

VOC:

Volatile organic compound

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  1. Chemical Engineering Department, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, 41380, Turkey

    Filiz Ugur Nigiz & Nilufer Durmaz Hilmioglu

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Nigiz, F.U., Hilmioglu, N.D. (2013). Clean Technology for Volatile Organic Compound Removal from Wastewater. In: Dincer, I., Colpan, C., Kadioglu, F. (eds) Causes, Impacts and Solutions to Global Warming. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7588-0_37

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