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Abstract.This study investigates the effect of additive rice husk silica and Polyethylene glycol (PEG) on the performance of polysulfone (PSf) membrane. The membrane was prepared by phase inversion method using PSf, N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP) and rice husk silica was added as an additive. The performance of the membrane was analyzed by using distilled water for permeation test and humic acid for rejection test. The result showed that the hydrophilic of PSf/PEG membrane has significantly improved permeation and rejection with addition of rice husk silica. The results showed that the addition of 3% rice husk silica give highest rejection flux at 196.63 L/m²hr with the rejection value 98%.

Abstract. In this work, polysulfone ultrafiltration membranes were prepared via simple phase inversion with distilled water as non-solvent additive. The main reason for the addition of water in polysulfone dope solution preparation was to enhance the membranes structure. In the dope, 15 wt. % of polysulfone was used and water was varied up to 6 wt. %. The effects of water on morphology, porosity and tensile properties were investigated in detail. From the porosity test, results showed that the addition of water has improved membrane porosity up to 53 %. The FESEM images revealed that membrane morphology has also been modified. However, the tensile properties of membrane decreased as water content increased which may be due to the porosity interaction between polysulfone/NMP with water.

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This study investigates the effect of additive rice husk silica and Polyethylene glycol(PEG) at different concentration on of Polysulfone (Psf) ultrafiltration (UF) membranes. The polymer membranes were prepared by a phase inversion method using Polysulfone (PSf) , N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP) as a solvent and distilled water as non-solvent. The performances of the membranes were measured in term of pure water flux by using distilled water and solute rejection at different wastewater concentration at 50%, 75% and 87.5%. The results demonstrated that the addition 2% and 3% rice husk silica give the good rejection for membranes but the best rejection was at membranes contains 3% rice husk silica where successfully do rejection of 80.5%. As a conclusion,the range between 2%-3% of rice husk silica gives the ideal composition based on the result of flux permeation and rejection.