Fouling-Resistant and Self-Cleaning Aliphatic Polyketone Membrane for Sustainable Oil–Water Emulsion Separation

• Published in: ACS applied materials & interfaces Vol. 10; no. 51; pp. 44880 - 44889
• Main Authors: Cheng, Liang, Shaikh, Abdul Rajjak, Fang, Li-Feng, Jeon, Sungil, Liu, Cui-Jing, Zhang, Lei, Wu, Hao-Chen, Wang, Da-Ming, Matsuyama, Hideto
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Chemical Society 26.12.2018
• Subjects: cellulose; cost effectiveness; emulsions; fouling; geometry; hydrophilicity; microporous membranes; moieties; oils; polymers; proteins; salinity; separation; surfactants; wastewater; fouling-resistant; oil−water separation; phase separation; self-cleaning; aliphatic polyketone

The cost-effective treatment of emulsified oily wastewater discharged by many industries and human societies is a great challenge. Herein, based on an aliphatic polyketone (PK) polymer with a good membrane formation ability and an intrinsic intermediate hydrophilicity, a new class of reduced PK (rPK...