Friday, February 14, 2014

Ultrafiltration membrane process for produced water treatment: experimental and modeling

CATEGORY: ULTRAFILTRATION
Journal of Water Reuse and Desalination In Press, Uncorrected Proof 2013, doi:10.2166/wrd.2013.092
Ultrafiltration membrane process for produced water treatment: experimental and modeling
Ramin Badrnezhad and Ali Heydari Beni
badrnezhad@yahoo.com
Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Hafez Ave., Tehran, Iran
Process Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada S4S 0A2
ABSTRACT
Presents results of an experimental and modeling study on the separation of oil and salts from produced water using a rectangular flat sheet polyacrylonitrile (PAN) ultrafiltration (UF) membrane (nominal pore size of 10 nm). Researchers examined the effects of transmembrane pressure (TMP) (1, 2, 3 and 5 bar) on permeation flux of UF membranes for treatment of produced water.
Results reveal that the average removal of chemical oxygen demand (COD) and total organic carbon (TOC) during the experiments were 94 and 83%, respectively. The UF membrane exhibited high potential for application in industry for produced water reusing purposes.
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