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Author(s) |
Shinde, R. N.; Chavan, V.; Acharya, R.; Rajurkar, N. S.; Pandey, A. K. (RCD)
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Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 2014. Vol. 2 (4): pp. 2221-2228 |
ABSTRACT
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Functionalized
membranes for As(V) removal were synthesized by grafting glycidyl
methacrylate in the fibrous and microporous host substrates, and
subsequently reacting these precursor membranes with
N-methyl-D-glucamine (NMDG). These membranes have been characterized and
studied for As(V) removal from aqueous solution by the permeation
method using dense membranes and flow-through method using fibrous
membranes. In the permeation experiment, it was observed that As(V)
could be transferred 60% from feed (ground water) to receiver
compartment (NaOH) using the dense NMDG-membranes. The lower transfer of
As(V) from feed to receiver compartment was due to counter transport of
OH- ions from a receiver to a feed compartment. To address
this problem, the removal of As(V) by sequential flow- through cycles of
the feed and receiver across the fibrous NMDG-membrane was studied. In
this mode, 92% of As(V) was sorbed in the fibrous NMDG-membrane in one
cycle of 7.5 min for 15 mL feed. As(V) was deloaded to 66% by a single
cycle of 0.3 mol L-1 NaOH. The HPLC method was also developed
for quantifying As(V) content preconcentrated in a receiver solution.
This method could be used for coupling desorption flow through cycle
directly to the HPLC system. The reusability experiments showed that the
membranes developed in the present work is highly stable and can be
regenerated without affecting their As(V) removal efficiency. |
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