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Water purification ultrafiltration membranes using nanofibers from unbleached and bleached rice straw.


ABSTRACT: There has been an increasing interest in recent years in isolating cellulose nanofibers from unbleached cellulose pulps for economic, environmental, and functional reasons. In the current work, cellulose nanofibers isolated from high-lignin unbleached neutral sulfite pulp were compared to those isolated from bleached rice straw pulp in making thin-film ultrafiltration membranes by vacuum filtration on hardened filter paper. The prepared membranes were characterized in terms of their microscopic structure, hydrophilicity, pure water flux, protein fouling, and ability to remove lime nanoparticles and purify papermaking wastewater effluent. Using cellulose nanofibers isolated from unbleached pulp facilitated the formation of a thin-film membrane (with a shorter filtration time for thin-film formation) and resulted in higher water flux than that obtained using nanofibers isolated from bleached fibers, without sacrificing its ability to remove the different pollutants.

SUBMITTER: Hassan ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7347555 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Water purification ultrafiltration membranes using nanofibers from unbleached and bleached rice straw.

Hassan Mohammad L ML   Fadel Shaimaa M SM   Abouzeid Ragab E RE   Abou Elseoud Wafaa S WS   Hassan Enas A EA   Berglund Linn L   Oksman Kristiina K  

Scientific reports 20200709 1


There has been an increasing interest in recent years in isolating cellulose nanofibers from unbleached cellulose pulps for economic, environmental, and functional reasons. In the current work, cellulose nanofibers isolated from high-lignin unbleached neutral sulfite pulp were compared to those isolated from bleached rice straw pulp in making thin-film ultrafiltration membranes by vacuum filtration on hardened filter paper. The prepared membranes were characterized in terms of their microscopic  ...[more]

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