An energy-efficient method for mitigating membrane fouling: A novel embodiment of the inverse fluidized bed

Farhad Zamani; Aijing Ma; Qi Han; Qinglang Ma; Hua Zhang; Anthony G. Fane; Jia Wei Chew

doi:10.1080/01496395.2017.1399909

An energy-efficient method for mitigating membrane fouling: A novel embodiment of the inverse fluidized bed

Farhad Zamani, Aijing Ma, Qi Han, Qinglang Ma, Hua Zhang, Anthony G. Fane, Jia Wei Chew^*

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Abstract

A novel inverse fluidized bed (IFB) was developed to improve membrane fouling mitigation vis-à-vis the conventional aeration method. The fluidized media, whose density was less than water and oleophilic, were more effective than bubbles for both feeds containing oil and particulates due to their greater inertia. The key highlights are (i) for all the conditions investigated, IFB consistently gave a lower trans-membrane pressure (TMP) than aeration at the same energy requirement; (ii) IFB performed better even when the energy input was reduced by 87.5%; (iii) IFB provided an impressive enhancement of up to 54 times that of dead-end filtration.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	683-695
Number of pages	13
Journal	Separation Science and Technology
Volume	53
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/01496395.2017.1399909
Publication status	Published - 4 Mar 2018
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Membrane fouling
energy efficiency
fouling mitigation
microfiltration
solid-liquid fluidization

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