化学
膜
结垢
等温滴定量热法
膜污染
超滤(肾)
石英晶体微天平
二价
傅里叶变换红外光谱
衰减全反射
色谱法
腐植酸
化学工程
无机化学
红外光谱学
有机化学
吸附
生物化学
肥料
工程类
作者
Longfei Wang,Dongqin He,Wei Chen,Han‐Qing Yu
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.watres.2015.06.009
摘要
Membrane fouling induced by natural organic matter (NOM) negatively affects the performance of ultrafiltration (UF) technology in producing drinking water. Divalent cation is found to be an important factor that affects the NOM-induced membrane fouling process. In this work, attenuated total reflection-Fourier transformation infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR) coupled with quartz crystal microbalance (QCM), assisted by isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC), is used to explore the contribution of Mg2+ and Ca2+, the two abundant divalent cations in natural water, to the UF membrane fouling caused by humic acid (HA) at a molecular level. The results show that Ca2+ exhibited superior performance in accelerating fouling compared to Mg2+. The hydrophobic polyethersulfone (PES) membrane exhibited greater complexation with HA in the presence of Mg2+ and Ca2+, compared to the hydrophilic cellulose membrane, as evidenced by the more intense polysaccharide C–O, aromatic CC and carboxylic CO bands in the FTIR spectra. The QCM and ITC measurements provide quantitative evidence to support that Ca2+ was more effective than Mg2+ in binding with HA and accumulating foulants on the membrane surfaces. The higher charge neutralization capacity and more favorable binding ability of Ca2+ were found to be responsible for its greater contribution to the NOM-induced membrane fouling than Mg2+. This work offers a new insight into the mechanism of cation-mediated NOM-induced membrane fouling process, and demonstrates that such an integrated ATR-FTIR/QCM/ITC approach could be a useful tool to explore other complicated interaction processes in natural and engineered environments.
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