Pervaporation process is an excellent and potential way applied for desalting acid mine drainage water. Nevertheless, the water flux was reduced gradually due to the issue of membrane fouling. To resolve this problem, cleaning process was chosen to maintain the water flux of silica-pectin membranes. This study aims to recover the water flux and salt rejection of the silica-pectin membranes via chemical cleaning process applied for acid mine drainage water desalination with various temperature of feed water (25-60 °C). Silica-pectin membrane was formulated by employing TEOS functioning as silica precursor and pectin as carbon template from banana peels. Chemical cleaning of the membrane carried out by employing TiO2 solution + UV light radiation for an hour. Performance of the silica-pectin membrane was evaluated via pervaporation process under dead-end system. The performance of silica-pectin banana peels membrane found flux recovery from 10.6 kg.m−
2.h−1 and flux recovery of 17.54 kg.m−
2.h−1. It shows that flux recovery higher than before backwashing process. Also, silica-pectin membrane results in all of the salt rejection <99 %. It is concluded that the chemical backwashing process is important to apply to recover the water flux of membrane, also, this process considers to save and reduce the operational costs.
Wetland water and acid mine drainage are available in South Kalimantan, Indonesia. However, "Wetland saline water (WSW)" phenomena occur in the wetland areas due to the seawater intrusion, this water which contains a high salt concentration is unsafe to be consumed. While acid mine drainage (AMD) pollution becomes an issue in the mining industry that impact human life and the environment. Salt particles could be removed by using a silica pectin membrane. Banana peel has a high pectin substance. Banana pectin (0.5wt% and 0.1wt%) was employed in silica and calcined at 300 and 400 °C. We demonstrate the silica pectin template's performance without interlayer for wetland water and acid mine drainage desalination. Membranes were developed through a sol-gel method with silica source deposited from tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) and performed by pervaporation at room temperature (~25 °C). As a result, 0.5wt% banana pectin concentration at 300 °C exhibited excellent performance with the highest water fluxes are 8.4 and 10.4 kg m −2 h −1 for WSW and AMD, respectively. Nevertheless, both membranes achieved high salt rejections up to 92%. Thereby, banana pectin as a carbon source impacts the stronger silica bond.
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