纳米TiO_2对不同材料超滤膜结构与性能的影响

TiO2高分子复合膜的结构包括聚醚酮、聚醚砜、酚酞聚醚砜三种高分子结构,这种特别的结构能够用X射线能谱仪检出。对其进行试验,结果显示:TiO2复合超滤膜的亲水性明显改善,并对结构产生重要影响。

超滤衰竭的影响因素及其对策

腹膜透析时血液中的水分向透析液侧转运的过程称为超滤,这是腹膜透析水分清除的主要机制,腹膜失去超滤功能称为超滤衰竭.影响超滤的因素很多,如透析液的渗透剂型、灌注量、置留时间、药物影响以及腹膜转运功能等等,其中腹膜转运功能是影响超滤及溶质清除的基础.

间歇补充型血液透析滤过及其临床应用

间歇补充型血液透析滤过(I-HDF),是使用程序化的透析机,在血液透析过程中将高质量的超纯透析液通过透析膜间歇性反超滤输注至血液中,以短期内增加外周循环容量,提高溶质清除率,达到模拟血液透析滤过的效果。I-HDF基本程序:每次输注量为200 ml,每次输注的间隔时间30 min,输注速度为150 ml/min;初次输注在血液透析开始后30 min,并在治疗结束前30 min完成最后一次输注。血液透析时间为4h时,总输注量为1 400 ml(200 ml×7次)。I-HDF可有效改善血液透析治疗过程中患者的外周循环,提高血浆再充盈,增加溶质清除,并且可防止透析膜的渗透性随时间延长而下降,稳定透析中血压,减少心动过速的发生,非常有益于低血压倾向的患者。

Preparation of felt-metal supported modified polyvinyl alcohol composite hydrophilic ultrafiltration membrane

A novel technology of preparation of felt-metal supported modified polyvinyl alcohol（PVA） ultrafiltration（UF） membrane was invented, which could avoid the blockage of the holes of support layer and the leakage of the casting solution through the holes of support layer. Felt-metal supported ferric sulfate modified PVA composite UF membranes were prepared by the innovative technology. The results show that the composite membranes are used to treat 1 000 mg/L oil/water emulsion at trans-membrane pressure from 0.25 to 0.45 MPa, the permeate flux is from 36 to 52 L/（m2·h）, and the retention of chemical oxygen demand（COD） is over 92%. The composite membrane resistance increases with the increase of trans-naembrane pressure.

Fabrication of SPES/Nano-TiO_2 Composite Ultrafiltration Membrane and Its Anti-fouling Mechanism

Membrane fouling is one of the major obstacles for reaching a high flux over a prolonged period of ultrafiltration（UF）process.In this study,a sulfonated-polyethersulfone（SPES）/nano-TiO2 composite UF membrane with good anti-fouling performance was fabricated by phase inversion and self-assembly methods.The TiO2 nanoparticle self-assembly on the SPES membrane surface was confirmed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy （XPS）and FT-IR spectrometer.The morphology and hydrophilicity were characterized by scanning electron microscopy（SEM）,atomic force microscopy（AFM）and contact angle goniometer,respectively.The anti-fouling mechanism of composite UF membrane was discussed through the analysis of the micro-structure and component of UF membrane surface.The results showed that the TiO2 content and the micro-structure of the composite UF membrane surface had great influence on the separation and anti-fouling performance.

FILTERING OF MEDICAL ULTRASONIC IMAGES BASED ON A MODIFIED ANISTROPIC DIFFUSION EQUATION

Speckle noise reduction is a key problem of the image analysis of medical UltraSound images. In this paper, two important improvements have been developed to a fast anisotropic diffusion algorithm for speckle noise reduction. The Gaussian filter is firstly used before gradient calculation, and then the adaptive algorithm of the factor k is proposed. Numerous experimental results show that the proposed model is superior to other methods in noise removal, fidelity and edge preservation. It is suitable for the preprocessing of a great number of medical UltraSound images, such as three dimen- sional reconstruction.

Changes of Resistance During Polyelectrolyte-enhanced Stirred Batch Ultrafiltration

The permeation flux or the resistance in the ultrafiltration process is mainly limited by osmotic pressure, and it may originate from various kinds of polymer interactions. However, the real origin of permeation resistance hasn＇t been clarified yet in the light of polymer solution nature. The removal of nitrate contamination by polyelectrolytes was carried out with stirred batch ultrafiltration. The polyelectrolyte concentrations both in permeate and retentate were analyzed with total organic carbon analyzer and permeate mass was acquired by electronic balance connected with computer. The total resistance was calculated and interpreted based on the osmotic pressures in three concentration regimes. In the dilute region, the resistance was proportional to polymer concentration; in the semidilute region, the resistance depended on polymer concentration in the parabolic relationship; in the highly concentrated solution regime, the osmotic pressure factor （OPF） would dominate the total resistance; and the deviation from OPF control could come from the electrostatic repulsion between the tightly compacted and charged polyelectrolyte particles at extremely concentrated solution regime. It was first found that dilute and semidilute concentration regions can be easily detected by plotting the leg-log curves of the polymer concentration versus the ratio of the total resistance to polymer concentration. The new concept OPF was defined and did work well at highly concentrated regime.

Recovery of Tungsten (Ⅵ) from Aqueous Solutions by Complexation-ultrafiltration Process with the Help of Polyquaternium

Polyquaternium-6 (PQ6) as the water-soluble polymer was used for complexing the anion forms of tungsten (Ⅵ) before ultrafiltration. Tungsten (Ⅵ)-PQ6 complex was retained by polysulfone hollow fiber ultrafiltration membrane in the complexation-ultrafiltration process. Effects of various operating parameters such as polymer metal ratio(PMR), pH and chloride ion concentration on permeate flux (J) and tungsten rejection coefficient (R) were investigated. The integration of four experiments including concentration, decomplexation, diafiltration and reuse of regenerated polymer was carried out. In the process of concentration, J declines slowly and R is about 1 at PMR of 3 and pH of 7. Tungsten concentration in the retentate increases linearly with volume concentration factor. Tungsten is concentrated efficiently with the membrane. The concentrated retentate was used further for the decomplexation. It takes about 6 min to reach the decomplexation equilibrium at chloride ion concentration of 50 mg·L-1 . The decomplexation percentage of tungsten (Ⅵ)-PQ6 complex reaches 56.1%. In the diafiltration process, tungsten (Ⅵ) can be extracted effectively by using 50 mg·L-1 chloride ion solution, and the purification of the regenerated PQ6 is acceptably satisfactory. The regenerated PQ6 was used to bind tungsten (Ⅵ) at various pH values. The binding capacity of the regenerated PQ6 is close to that of fresh PQ6, and the recovery percentage of binding capacity is higher than 90%.

Performance of an Ultrafiltration Membrane Pilot System for Treatment of Waste Stabilization Lagoon Effluent

Bali Tourism Development Corporation＇s lagoon （BTDC lagoon） has been used for treating wastewaters that come from all facilities available in the Nusa Dua Resort tourist area. Reuse of the lagoon effluent is limited for some applications due to salt and suspended solid contents. Application of an integrated membrane system for improving the water quality of the lagoon effluent which is suitable for various uses is under consideration. In this work an ultraflltration （UF） pilot performance for possible pretreatment of Reverse Osmosis （RO） was investigated. The results showed that permeate quality was stable （less than 0.5 NTU）, regardless of concentrating and diluting retentate in each cycle and fouling for a long duration of operation. However, the water quality obtained with this membrane was not enough to be directly used. The permeate quality obtained from the UF system fulfils the requirement for the optimal operation of reverse osmosis. Moreover, appropriate intermittent-backwash operation was fairly effective to maintain the fluxes at a reasonable level.

Effects of solubility parameter differences among PEG,PVP and CA on the preparation of ultrafiltration membranes:Impacts of solvents and additives on morphology,permeability and fouling performances

The effects of two different hydrophilic additives and two solvents on the membrane morphological structure,permeability property and anti-fouling performances of cellulose acetate(CA) ultrafiltration membranes were investigated. During the phase-inversion process, cellulose acetate was selected as a membrane forming polymer; polyethylene glycol(PEG) and polyvinyl pyrrolidone(PVP) were used as additives; acetone(Ac): N,N-Dimethylacetamide(DMAc) and N, N-Dimethylformamide(DMF) were used as solvents; and deionized(DI)water was used in the coagulation bath. All the prepared membranes were characterized in terms of hydraulic permeability(Pm), membrane resistance, average pore radius, and hydrophilicity. The top surface and crosssectional view of the prepared membranes were also observed by using field emission scanning electron microscopy. Membrane fouling and rejection experimentations were done using a stirred batch-cell filtration set-up.The experimental studies of fouling/rinsing cycles, rejection, and permeate fluxes were used to investigate the effect of PEG and PVP additives and effect of the two solvents on the fabricated membranes using bovine serum albumin(BSA) as a model protein.

Separation performance of horizontal and vertical polyethersulfone hollow fiber UF modules

The effect of hollow fiber module positions （ horizontal and vertical） on separation performance for PVA solution by using polyethersulfone （PES） hollow fiber ultrafiltration （UF） membrane with the molecular weight cut-off （MWCO） 30 000 has been discussed. Experimental results illustrated that the suitable operation conditions for PVA solution were as follows： trans-membrane pressure 2.1 bar, solution temperature 75℃ and feed velocity 0.32 m/s. Under these suitable operation conditions, the permeate flux is from 36.8 L/（m^2 ·h·bar） to 42.9 L/（m^2 ·h·bar） for the horizontal module and from 39.8 L/（m^2 ·h·bar） to 66.6 L/（m^2 ·h·bar） for the vertical module. Besides, the Separation performance of PES hollow fiber UF membrane was better by using vertical hollow fiber module than by using horizontal hollow fiber module. When the trans-membrane pressure increased from 1 bar to 2.1 bar, solution temperature from 50 ℃ to 75 ℃, feed solution velocity from 0.16 m/s to 0.32 m/s, the PVA rejection would increase from 95.8% to 99.7%, 95.4 96 to 98.6 %, 95.8 96 to 99.2 96 for horizontal module respectively, and from 98.8 96 to 99.8 %, 98.6 96 to 99.4 96, 98.5 96 to 99.4 96 for vertical module respectively. Therefore, PVA rejection in PES hollow fiber UF process was more than 98.5 96 for vertical module, and it is suitable for PVA recovery from wastewater.

Microbial Removal from Secondary Treated Wastewater Using a Hybrid System of Ultrafiltration and Reverse Osmosis

The efficiency of advanced membranes towards removal of general and specific microbes from wastewater was investigated. The treatment included a subsequent system of activated sludge, ultrafiltration （hollow fibre membranes with 100 kDa cut-off, and spiral wound membranes with 20 kDa cut-off）, and RO （reverse osmosis）. The removal evaluation of screened microbes present in treated wastewater showed that hollow fibre membrane rejected only 1 log （90% rejection） of the TPC （total microbial count）, TC （total coliforms）, and FC （faecal coliforms）. A higher effectiveness was observed with spiral wound, removing 2-3 logs （99%-99.9%） of TPC and complete rejection of TC and FC. The RO system was successful in total rejection of all received bacteria. The removal evaluation of inoculated specific types of bacteria showed that the hollow membranes removed 2 logs （99%） of inoculated E. coli （10^7-10^8 cfu/mL inoculum）, 2-3 logs （99%-99.9%） of Enterococus spp. （10^7-10^10 cfu/mL inoculum）, 1-2 logs （90%-99%） of Salmonella （10^8-10^10 cfu/mL inoculum） and 1-2 logs （90%-99%） of Shigella （10^5-10^6 cfu/mL inoculum）. The spiral wound was significantly efficient in rejecting further 3 logs of E. coil, 5 logs of Enterococus spp., 4 logs of Salmonella, and a complete rejection of all received bacteria was accomplished by RO membrane. The results indicate that Gram positive bacteria were removed much more efficiently compared to the Gram negative ones, the rationale behind such behaviour is based on cell walls elasticity.

Research on solubilization used for micellar enhanced ultrafiltration

Micellar enhanced ultrafiltration （MEUF） is a new effective treatment technology for the filtration removal of organic pollutants through solubilization. The present paper is aimed to study the solubilization of organic compounds such as chlorobenzene （CB）, pyrene and phenol by anionic, cationic and mixed anionic-nonionic surfactants such as sodium dodecyl sulfate （SDS）, cetyltrimethylammonium bromide （CTMAB） and Tween-80 （TW80） and the mixed SDS-TW80 with a batch equilibrium method. This study enables us to supply deeper investigation for MEUF. The results showed that solubilization capacity was not obvious below the critical micellar concentration （CMC）. The apparent solubilities of organic compounds were linearly related to surfactant concentrations over their CMCs. Solubilization capacity by single surfactants follow the order of TW80 〉 CTMAB 〉 SDS. The results also proved that the solubilization of the organic contaminants by the mixed surfactants can significantly be enhanced compared with the single anionic surfactant SDS. Whereas the CMC can be decreased, the solubility can be increased as long as the mass ratio of nonionic surfactant increases. The solubility enhancement efficiency of the different organic compounds follow the order of phenol 〉 CB 〉 pyrene. In addition, the solubilization ratio appears to be positively relative to the intrinsic water solubility of the organic contaminants and negatively correlates to octanol-water coefficients （Kow） of organic compounds and the hydrophile-lypophile balance values （HLB） of the surfactants.

Graphene oxide quantum dots embedded polysulfone membranes with enhanced hydrophilicity,permeability and antifouling performance

Graphene oxide(GO) has been demonstrated to be an effective hydrophilic nanofiller to modify the polymeric membranes when forming a mixed matrix structure. GO quantum dots(QDs) are promising candidates to fully exert the rich oxygen containing functional groups due to their unique size induced edge effects. In this work, GO QDs modified polysulfone(PSF) ultrafiltration(UF) membranes were prepared by phase inversion method with various GO QDs loadings(0.1–0.5 wt.%). A proper amount of GO QDs addition led to a more porous and hydrophilic membrane structure. With 0.3 wt.% GO QDs, the membranes showed a60% increase in permeability(130.54 vs. 82.52 LMH bar^-1).The pristine PSF membranes had a complete cutoff of bovine serum albumin molecules and it was well maintained with GO QDs incorporated. The membranes with 0.5 wt.% GO QDs exhibited the highest flux recovery ratio of 89.7% and the lowest irreversible fouling of 10.3%(54.5% and 33.3% for the pristine PSF membranes). Our results proved that GO QDs can function as effective nanofillers to enhance the hydrophilicity, permeability and antifouling performance of PSF UF membranes.

A LINE SEARCH FILTER INEXACT SQP METHOD FOR NONLINEAR EQUALITY CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION

This paper proposes an inexact SQP method in association with line search filter technique for solving nonlinear equality constrained optimization. For large-scale applications, it is expensive to get an exact search direction, and hence the authors use an inexact method that finds an approximate solution satisfying some appropriate conditions. The global convergence of the proposed algorithm is established by using line search filter technique. The second-order correction step is used to overcome the Maratos effect, while the line search filter inexact SQP method has q-superlinear local convergence rate. Finally, the results of numerical experiments indicate that the proposed method is efficient for the given test problems.

A FILTER SECANT METHOD WITH NONMONOTONE LINE SEARCH FOR EQUALITY CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION

This paper proposes a filter secant method with nonmonotone line search for non-linearequality constrained optimization.The Hessian of the Lagrangian is approximated using the BFGSsecant update.This new method has more flexibility for the acceptance of the trial step and requires lesscomputational costs compared with the monotone one.The global and local convergence of the proposedmethod are given under some reasonable conditions.Further,two-step Q-superlinear convergence rateis established by introducing second order correction step.The numerical experiments are reported toshow the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.