Manufacturing of tubular ceramic microfiltration membrane based on natural pozzolan for pretreatment of seawater desalination
- Resource Type
- Authors
- I.E. El Amrani; J. Bennazha; B. Achiou; A. Albizane; H. Elomari; M. Ouammou; A. Bouazizi; S. Alami Younssi; A. Karim
- Source
- Desalination. 419:181-187
- Subject
- Materials science
General Chemical Engineering
02 engineering and technology
010402 general chemistry
01 natural sciences
Desalination
law.invention
law
General Materials Science
Ceramic
Turbidity
Filtration
Water Science and Technology
Waste management
Mechanical Engineering
Chemical oxygen demand
Metallurgy
General Chemistry
Pozzolan
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
0104 chemical sciences
visual_art
visual_art.visual_art_medium
Extrusion
Seawater
0210 nano-technology
- Language
- ISSN
- 0011-9164
This work describes manufacturing of low-cost tubular ceramic microfiltration membrane made from natural pozzolan. Firstly, the tubular ceramic support was prepared by extrusion technique followed by sintering at low temperature of 950 °C. The extruded paste is essentially composed of pozzolan powder ( 2 .bar. Manufactured membrane is expected to have challenge application in pretreatment of seawater for desalination. Membrane performance was evaluated by filtration of raw seawater in the aim of reducing its turbidity and its chemical oxygen demand. Experimental results showed a high rejection of turbidity (98.25%) as well as a good retention of chemical oxygen demand (70.77%).