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Chinese Journal of Materials Research  2014, Vol. 28 Issue (5): 353-361    DOI: 10.11901/1005.3093.2013.725
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FEP Hollow Fiber Membrane and Its Membrane Distillation Process
Yanjie WU,Changfa XIAO(),Qinglin HUANG,Kaikai CHEN
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin Polytechnic University, State Key Laboratory of Hollow Fiber Membrane Materials and Processes, Tianjin Polytechnic University, Tianjin 300387
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Yanjie WU,Changfa XIAO,Qinglin HUANG,Kaikai CHEN. FEP Hollow Fiber Membrane and Its Membrane Distillation Process. Chinese Journal of Materials Research, 2014, 28(5): 353-361.

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Abstract  

The influence of draw ratio on the structure and properties of poly(tetrafluoroethylene-co-hexafluoropropylene) (FEP) hollow fiber membrane which was fabricated by melt-spinning stretching (M-S) method was investigated in this article. The primary FEP hollow fiber membrane structure was compact while the porous structure occurs after stretching. Furthermore, the increase of membrane draw ratios induced the obvious increase of membrane porosity and the N2 flux while the decrease of the liquid entrance pressure (LEP). Meanwhile, the FEP hollow fiber membrane was applied to the vacuum membrane distillation (VMD) process to compared with M-S PP hollow fiber membrane which was the commercial product. The results show that the hydrophobic properties, LEP and mechanical strength of FEP hollow fiber membrane was better than PP hollow fiber membrane. The strong and stable of hydrophobic properties enabled the FEP membrane unpenetrated, which kept the desalination rate maintain up to 99%. The larger inner diameter (about 0.74 mm) of FEP hollow fiber membrane induced the use of internal pressure VMD type which brought about the higher VMD flux when the feed temperature increased.

Key words:  organic polymer materials      poly(tetrafluoroethylene-co-hexafluoropropylene) (FEP)      hollow fiber membrane      polypropylene (PP)      membrane distillation      desalination rate     
Received:  30 September 2013     
Fund: *Supported by National Basic Research Program of China No.2012CB722706, National Natural Science Foundation of China No.20874073, and Tianjin Key Research Program of Application Foundation and Advanced Technology No.12JCZDJC26600.

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Fig.1  FEP hollow fiber membrane spinning flow chart
Membrane FEP PP
Inner diameter/mm 0.74 0.23
Outer diameter/mm 1.31 0.45
The number of membrane 100 200
Effective length of components/m 0.18 0.24
Effective area of component/m2 0.042 0.068
Table 1  Structure parameters of the hollow fiber membrane
Fig.2  N2 flux tester of hollow fiber membrane
Fig.3  Hollow fiber membrane fluid osmolality testing flowchart
Fig.4  VMD system flow chart. 1-water bath pot; 2-magnetic circulating pump; 3-meter; 4-pressure gauge; 5-the thermometer; 6-membrane component; 7-condenser pipe; 8-water flask; 9-vacuum pump
LEP/MPa
First time Second time Third time Average value
50℃, 3 times stretch of FEP 0.40 0.39 0.37 0.39±0.015
70℃, 3 times stretch of FEP 0.35 0.37 0.35 0.36±0.012
90℃, 3 times stretch of FEP 0.33 0.35 0.33 0.34±0.012
90℃, 2 times stretch of FEP 0.35 0.35 0.36 0.36±0.006
90℃, 4 times stretch of FEP 0.32 0.33 0.33 0.33±0.006
Table 2  different tensile conditions of FEP film liquid osmotic pressure
Membrane FEP PP
PWF/Lm-2h-1 6.78 82.30
The gas flux/m3m-2h-1 0.83 2.54
LEP/MPa 0.41 0.13
Table 3  performance parameters of PP and FEP hollow fiber membrane
Porosity/% Water Ethanol n-Butanol
FEP/Raw hollow fiber 12.74 14.68 36.18
FEP/Stretched 1.5 times 32.26 34.83 48.75
FEP/Stretched 1.9 times 16.16 34.48 38.20
PP 18.54 36.73 50.92
Table 4  FEP and PP hollow fiber membrane porosity
Fig.5  PP (a) and FEP (b) hollow fiber membrane static contact angle
Fig.6  PP hollow fiber membrane microstructure (a, b) inner surface; (c, d)outer surface; (e, f) cross-section. (a, c, e) low magnification, (b, d, f) high magnification
Fig.7  FEP hollow fiber membrane microstructure (a, b) inner surface, (c, d) outer surface, (e, f) cross-section. (a, c, e) low magnification, (b, d, f) high magnification
Fig.8  Different stretching ratio of FEP hollow fiber membrane microstructure (a, b) raw hollow fiber, (c, d) stretched 1.5 times, (e, f) stretched 2 times. (a, c, e) inner surface, (b, d, f) outer surface
Fig.9  Stress-strain curves of FEP hollow fiber membrane
Fig.10  Stress-strain curves of PP hollow fiber membrane
Fig.11  Change of water flux vs time
Fig.12  Change of desalination rate flux vs time
Fig.13  Influence of temperature on the FEP hollow fiber membrane distillation flux
Fig.14  Average flux of FEP membrane components under different temperature conditions
Fig.15  Effect of temperature on the FEP component of desalting
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