The influence of membrane type on the permeate flux in microfiltration of two sorbents Bentonite a natural sorbent, montmorillonite based clay and Lewatit S1468 a synthetic sorbent, styrene-divinylbenzene based copolymer was studied. Two types of membranes, single-and multi-channel, both asymmetric inorganic ceramic membranes based on α-Al2O3, were used. The experimental data were obtained by continuous microfiltration equipment. According to the results use of multi-channel membrane has more advantages higher permeate flux, lower energy consumption, and lower flow rate than disadvantages longer time period to reach the steady state and higher pressure loss.
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The influence of transmembrane pressure on the permeate flux, and the critical and limiting fluxes in microfiltration of two sorbents Bentonite a natural sorbent, montmorillonite based clay and Lewatit S1468 a synthetic sorbent, styrene-divinylbenzene based copolymer were studied. An asymmetric single-channel inorganic ceramic membrane based on α-Al2O3 was used. The experimental data were obtained by continuous microfiltration equipment. According to the results the limiting flux ranged from 37 to 70 l.m-2.h-1 for Bentonite suspensions. It was not possible to estimate the limiting flux for Lewatit S1468 suspension.
The effects of various operating conditions including transmembrane pressure, suspension concentration and crossfl ow velocities for the microfi ltration of micro-sized suspensions were experimentally investigated. The experiments were carried out with suspensions of bentonite particles with particle diameters of 0.5-100 μm using 0.1 μm tubular ceramic membranes. The step by step technique was used to determine the values of the critical fl ux and infl uence of the high frequency backfl ushing was analysed. It was found that the permeate fl ux is signifi cantly depend on the suspension concentration and crossfl ow velocity. High permeate fl uxes were obtained at low concentration 1 g.l −1 and/or at high velocity 2.2 ms −1 .
The impact of two-phase flow onto the flux of the permeate in microfiltration of two sorbents-Bentonite and Lewatit S1468-with and without adsorbed zinc, was examined. Two different types of membrane, single-and multi-channel, based on α-Al 2 O 3 , were used. In single-channel membrane application of aeration increased the permeate flux by 13 and 29% without adsorbed zinc and by 22 and 25% with adsorbed zinc for Bentonite suspension and by 4 and 5.5% both with and without adsorbed zinc for Lewatit S1468 compared to single-phase (without aeration) flow at 1.4 and 2.2 m s −1 of the gaseous phase rate, respectively. In multi-channel membrane the permeate flux increased not significantly without adsorbed zinc and by 22 and 25% with adsorbed zinc for Bentonite and by 12 and 13% without adsorbed zinc and not significantly with adsorbed zinc for Lewatit S1468 at 0.4 and 1.1 m s −1 of the gaseous phase rate, respectively.
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