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Preparation and Characterization of Ceramic Membrane by Using Palm
Fibres as Pore Forming Agent
Faezatul Alwani Binti Mohd Rahim
Supervisor: Dr Mohd Al Amin Bin Muhamad Nor
Bachelor of Science (Chemical Sciences)
School Of Fundamental Science
Ceramic membranes gain attention due to the chemical and thermal stability, and high
separation efficiency. In this study, the ball clay ceramic membranes was prepared
using slip casting method. Palm fibres in range of weight 0wt% to 40wt% was used
as pore forming agent. Membranes produced were characterized by using Archimedes
Method and Universal Testing machine to determine the porosity, density and
compressive strength. Scanning Electron Microscopy was used to observe the
morphology of the ceramic membrane. As porosity increases from 36% to 54%,
density was decreased from 2.5g/cm 3 to 1.7g/cm 3 with increasing amount of palm
fibres from 0wt% to 40wt%. While, compressive strength was decrease from 8.37MPa
to 1.42MPa. In conclusion, increasing amount of palm fibres because the porosity
increases while the density and compressive strength of the membrane decrease.
Based on the higher porosity value 54%, this ceramic membrane is highly potential to
be used in water filtration.
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