Preparation for PTFE Hollow Fiber Membranes Used in Water Treatment and Optimization for its Extrusion Process

Abstract:

For their excellent physical and chemical properties, PTFE hollow fiber membranes can be used in harsh environment of water treatment. But the membranes cannot be prepared by conventional methods, such as the melting processing methods and the dry-wet spinning processing methods, because of a high melting point of 327°C and chemical stability. In this paper a method of extrusion-stretching-sintering is used, and using this method we get the membranes with high fracture strength (10MPa) and high pure water flux (1500L/(m2*h)), also the retention rate of bovine serum albumin reaching 50%, which meets the laboratory microfiltration membrane requirements.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 750-752)
• Pages: 828-831
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.750-752.828
• Online since: August 2013
• Authors: Chao Zhuang, Zhi Qing Luo, Wen Qing Chen
• Keywords: Hollow Fiber Membranes, Optimization, PTFE

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