MODIFIED COMPOSITE MEMBRANES FOR NANOFINTRATION

  • Jegal, Jong-Geon (Membrane and Separation Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology) ;
  • Oh, Nam-Wun (Membrane and Separation Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology) ;
  • Park, Duk-Soon (Membrane and Separation Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology) ;
  • Lee, Kew-Ho (Membrane and Separation Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology)
  • Published : 1999.07.01

Abstract

Nanofiltration (NF) composite membranes based of poly (vinyl alcohol) (PVA) and sodium alginate (SA) were prepared by coating PVA/SA (95/5 in wt %) mixture solutions on the microporous polysulfone (PS) supports, followed by the crosslinking with glutaraldehyed. The composite membranes prepared were characterized with a scanning electron microscopy (SEM), a fourier transform infrared spectroscopy(FTIR), an elecrtokinetic analyzer (EKA) and permeation tests.

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