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Membrane and Surface Modification III – 4<br />

Friday July 18, 11:15 AM-11:45 AM, Honolulu/Kahuku<br />

Hydrophilic Modification of Polypropylene Hollow Fiber Membrane<br />

S. Kim (Speaker), Kyung Hee University, Gyeonggido, Korea - sungkim@khu.ac.kr<br />

H. Kim, Kyung Hee University, Gyeonggido, Korea<br />

J. Kim, Kyung Hee University, Gyeonggido, Korea<br />

Polypropylene hollow fiber membrane was hydrophilized by EVOH dip coating<br />

followed by low temperature plasma treatment and UV irradiation. EVOH coating<br />

attained high water flux without any pre-wetting treatment but its stability was not<br />

guaranteed at high water permeation rate. Gradual flux decline was observed<br />

due to swelling and delamination of the EVOH coating layer, which caused pore<br />

blocking. However, plasma treatment reduced the swelling, which suppressed<br />

delamination of the EVOH coating layer from PP support, which resulted in<br />

relieving the flux decline. UV irradiation with hydrophilic monomers helped<br />

crosslinking of the EVOH coating layer to enhance the performance at low water<br />

permeation rate. FT-IR and XPS analyses revealed that EVOH dip coating<br />

performed homogeneous coating not only on membrane surface but also into the<br />

membrane matrix. Thermogram of EVOH film modified by plasma treatment and<br />

UV irradiation showed the increase of crosslinking density of EVOH layer.<br />

Chemical modification by plasma treatment and UV irradiation stabilized the<br />

hydrophilic coating layer to increase the critical flux of the membrane, when it<br />

was operated in submerged mode.

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