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Abdolreza Moghadassi

Abdolreza Moghadassi

Academic rank: Professor
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0733-4540
Education: PhD.
ScopusId: 25959677500
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Faculty: Engineering
Address: Arak University
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Research

Title
Influence of the various pore former additives on the performance and characteristics of the bare and EPVC/boehmite nanocomposite ultrafiltration membranes
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
Ultrafiltrationmembrane Antifouling Polyvinylchloride Boehmitenanoparticles Polyethyleneglycol Polyvinylpyrrolidone
Year
2019
Journal Materials today communication
DOI
Researchers Marzieh Farjami ، Vahid Vatanpour ، Abdolreza Moghadassi

Abstract

The influence of various additives of PEG (with MW = 1000, 4000 g/mol), PVP (with MW = 10000, 29000 g/mol) and Pluronic F-17 on the attributes and performance of the EPVC and EPVC/boehmite nanocomposite membranes was studied. Water contact angle, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), atomic force microscopy (AFM) and energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) analyses and also the obtained results of pure water flux, bovine serum albumin (BSA) flux and flux recovery ratio (FRR) were evaluated to investigate the membrane attributes and performance. By adding 2 wt.% of PEG4000 to the matrix of the EPVC and EPVC/boehmite nanocomposite membranes, surface hydrophilicity, mean pore diameter and surface porosity improved. The nanocomposite membrane fabricated in the attendance of hydrophilic additive of PEG4000 exhibited the highest amount in pure water flux (701.4 L/m2.h), BSA solution