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Published on: April 7, 2017
Dehydration of dioxane by pervaporation using filled blend membranes of polyvinyl alcohol and sodium alginate
Sunil Baran Kuila1, Samit Kumar Ray
1Department of Chemical Engineering, Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, West Bengal, India.
Abstract:
Pervaporation membranes were made by solution blending of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and sodium alginate (SA). Accordingly, five different blends with PVA:SA weight ratio of 75:25, 50:50, 25:75, 20:80 and 10:90 designated as PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4 and PS5, respectively, were prepared. Each of these blends was crosslinked with 2, 4 and 6 wt% glutaraldehyde and the resulting fifteen (5 × 3) membranes were used for pervaporative separation of 90 wt% dioxane in water. The membranes made from PS4 and PS5 were not stable during pervaporation experiments. Among the stable membranes PS3 membrane crosslinked with 2 wt% glutaraldehyde showed the best results for flux and selectivity. Thus, it was filled with nano size sodium montmorillonite filler and used for separation of dioxane-water mixtures over the entire concentration range of 80-99.5 wt% dioxane in water. The membranes were also characterized by mechanical properties, FTIR, SEM, DTA-TGA and XRD.
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