In this study, a thin film composite membrane was fabricated by using hybrid membrane as the barrier layer and polysulfone membrane as base membrane. During the formulation of hybrid membrane, a polymer blend of polyvinyl alcohol with chitosan was chosen as organic polymer and it was cross-linked with tetraethylorthosilicate (TEOS), where sol gel method is used to prepare the hybrid membrane. Phase inversion method is used to prepare the base membrane. The aim of this study is to determine the optimum concentration of the polymer for porous support membrane as well as the concentration of chitosan and TEOS in the fabrication of the thin film composite. Four concentrations of polysulfone (PSF) solution was prepared (13wt%, 14wt%, 15wt% and 17wt %) and the optimum concentration was determined. For the hybrid membrane, concentration of chitosan solution was varied at1wt%, 2wt% and 3wt% with fixed concentration of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) solution (10wt %). Results showed that 2wt% chitosan and 13 wt% PSF is sufficient to remove acceptable percentage of copper ion. For this purpose of identifying optimum amount of TEOS, pH of the feed copper ion solution was adjusted to three conditions (pH 3, 7, 10). Although, the percentage removal is highest at pH 10 but when dealing with natural integrated complexation method, pH 7 is found to be the optimum pH for the removal of copper ion. Besides that, 3 wt% TEOS in hybrid membrane has found to give a remarkable percentage removal of copper ion. Overall, a new formulation of thin film composite membrane show a great potential to compete with those commercial membrane in thin film composite membrane application especially separation process.
The use of bioplastic film has been gaining a lot of interest especially in food packaging, however knowledge on its stability during handling is limited. Moisture sorption isotherm is a study that determines the stability of the film when exposed to certain environmental conditions. The gravimetric method was used to determine the moisture sorption isotherm of cassava starch film incorporated with kaffir lime essential oil (EO) at 30°C and 40°C. The moisture content increases with increasing water activity for both 30°C and 40°C. The sorption data were fitted into 3 models and Oswin was found to be the best model to fit the data with R2 of 0.93 to 0.97. The sorption data were used to determine the net isosteric heat of sorption (qst) through the application of Clausius – Clapeyron equation which provides an approximation of the minimum energy required to remove water from a solid. Generally, the qst decreases exponentially with an increase in moisture content regardless of whether the film contains EO. The incorporation of EO within these temperatures does not affect the moisture content and heat of sorption of the starch-based bioplastic film, which shows its stability and potential as an additive in food packaging film.
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