Nowadays, organic pollutants occurring in surface waters have raised substantial concern in public.
Triclosan (TCS) is one of the antimicrobial agents which are utilized in both domestic and industrial
application. In this study nanofiltration (NF) of TCS in surface water was investigated. Laboratory
scale cross-flow device is operated in total recycle mode and DK-NF and DL-NF membranes were
used. Kesikkö / prü / Reservoir (Ankara) water was used as raw water. Effect of natural organic matter
(NOM) content of raw water on TCS removal is searched through addition of humic acid (HA)
into the raw water as to represent for NOM. Steady state permeate fluxes are monitored
throughout the experiments to explore the flux behavior of the membranes. During the experiments,
performance of the membranes is assessed by monitoring TCS, as well as other water quality
parameters, such as UVA254 and total organic carbon (TOC) in the feed and permeates waters. Results
obtained put forward that TCS removal by NF membrane is not as same as reported in the literature.
In the literature, membrane removal efficiency is reported as above 90%. However, this study proved
that this would be true if and only if one does not considers the adsorption of TCS by the system itself,
in the absence of membrane. It is now clear that, because of adsorption of the TCS onto the
experimental set up (feed tank, pipings etc.) / the real TCS removal efficiency of the nanofiltration is
around 60-70%.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12615617/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 January 2013 |
| Creators | Ogutverici, Abdullah |
| Contributors | Yetis, Ulku |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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