Research Update: Liquid gated membrane filtration performance with inorganic particle suspensions

Alvarenga, Jack; Ainge, Yuki; Williams, Chris; Maltz, Aubrey; Blough, Thomas; Khan, Mughees; Aizenberg, Joanna

doi:10.1063/1.5047480

Research Update: Liquid gated membrane filtration performance with inorganic particle suspensions

Journal Article · Tue Oct 23 04:00:00 EDT 2018 · APL Materials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5047480· OSTI ID:1613567

^[1]; Ainge, Yuki ^[2]; Williams, Chris ^[3]; Maltz, Aubrey ^[3]; Blough, Thomas ^[4]; Khan, Mughees ^[4]; Aizenberg, Joanna ^[4]

Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States); DOE/OSTI
Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA (United States)
Univ. of Waterloo, ON (Canada)
Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)

Membrane filtration technology is widely used across several industries. But its efficiency is plagued by fouling, which ultimately deteriorates the membrane’s performance. This paper provides a research update on the biologically inspired liquid-enabled gating mechanism that acts as a novel filtration and separation approach offering reduction in transmembrane pressure (TMP), improved throughput, and reduced fouling. We study the performance of such Liquid Gated Membranes (LGMs) and present their benefits for filtration in the presence of model inorganic (nanoclay particles) fouling. We show over twofold higher throughput, nearly threefold longer time to foul, more than 60% reduction in irreversible fouling, ability to return to baseline pressures after backwashing along with reduction in use of backwash water, and 10%-15% reduction in TMP for filtration of nanoclay particles. Fouling models exhibit not only delayed onset of fouling for LGMs compared to the control but also different fouling characteristics. These results demonstrate the potential of the liquid gating mechanism, which can lead to breakthroughs in membrane technology applications in particle filtration, microfiltration, and ultrafiltration.

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Research Organization:: Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E); National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: AR0000326

OSTI ID:: 1613567

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1478550

Journal Information:: APL Materials, Journal Name: APL Materials Journal Issue: 10 Vol. 6; ISSN 2166-532X

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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