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Treatment of textile industry wastewater by using high-performance forward osmosis membrane tailored with alpha-manganese dioxide nanoparticles for fertigation

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Forward osmosis (FO) technology has been acknowledged as an energy-efficient cutting-edge water treatment innovation; however, the inefficient performance of polymer-based membranes remains a tailback in the practical utilization of FO. A significant issue in FO is membrane fouling, which negatively influences the flux efficiency, working expenses and membrane life expectancy. Membranes having high water flux and minimum reverse solute flux at low operating pressures are the ideal membranes for this process. This study reports a thin-film nanocomposite (TFNC) membrane for the treatment of textile industry wastewater utilizing fertilizer as draw solution fabricated via the phase inversion process. The chemical structure and morphology of the synthesized manganese oxide (MnO2) incorporated membrane were studied by various characterization techniques like X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy–energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, contact angle and gravimetry. The outcomes demonstrated that the nanoparticles were bonded to cellulose acetate polymer via covalent bonds and showed very hydrophilic membrane surface, along with an increased osmotic water flux of 52.5 L.m2.h−1 and reverse salt flux of 10.9 g.m2.h−1, when deionized wastewater and potassium chloride were used as the feed solution and the draw solution, respectively. In this manner, incorporating manganese oxide into the FO membrane may introduce its extraordinary possible application for the production of diluted fertilizer solution with balanced nutrients.

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This work was supported by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, New Delhi, India (Grant No. ECR/2016/001668).

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  1. Amity Institute of Environmental Sciences, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Sector 125, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, 201313, India

    Harshita Jain & Manoj Chandra Garg

  2. Department of Hydrology, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, 247667, India

    Ajay Kumar

  3. School of Energy and Environment, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, Punjab, 147005, India

    Anoop Kumar Verma

  4. Department of Chemistry, School of Engineering, University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, Bidholi Campus, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, 248007, India

    Shikha Wadhwa

  5. Academy of Biology and Biotechnology, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, 344090, Russia

    Vishnu D. Rajput & Tatiana Minkina

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Harshita Jain contributed to investigation, methodology, and writing—original draft. Ajay Kumar contributed to data curation, software, and validation, Anoop Kumar Verma provided resources and contributed to data curation, writing—review & editing. Shikha Wadhwa provided resources contributed to writing—review & editing. Vishnu D. Rajput contributed to writing—review & editing, Tatiana Minkina contributed to writing—review & editing. Manoj Chandra Garg contributed to conceptualization, methodology, writing—review & editing, supervision, and funding acquisition. All authors contributed to the study conception and design. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Jain, H., Kumar, A., Verma, A.K. et al. Treatment of textile industry wastewater by using high-performance forward osmosis membrane tailored with alpha-manganese dioxide nanoparticles for fertigation. Environ Sci Pollut Res 29, 80032–80043 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-20047-x

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