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The preparation of high performance separation membrane is the key technology for developing efficient oil/water separation system. In this paper, hydrophilic/oleophilic Polystyrene (PS)/Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) bi-component membranes were prepared via electro-blown spinning (EBS) technique and exhibited extremely high oil flux. The addition of PAN component significantly enhanced the tensile strength of the PS based fibrous membranes and PS/PAN membrane with the weight ratio of 5:3 achieved a tensile strength of 2.1 MPa which was 3 times higher than pure PS membrane. The PS/PAN membranes demonstrated a high light oil flux up to 18000 l·m-2·h-1 and could remain the oil flux recovery ratio of 94.09 % after 10 cycles. The as-prepared membranes exhibited the superior oil/water separation performance with the separation efficiency higher than 99.5 % and have a great potential to deal with the oily waste water in the near future.
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Fan, L., Yan, J., He, H. et al. Electro-blown spun PS/PAN fibrous membrane for highly efficient oil/water separation. Fibers Polym 18, 1988–1994 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12221-017-7429-8
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