Mohd Haiqal Abd Aziz, Mohd Hafiz Dzarfan Othman, Nur Awanis Hashim, Mukhlis A Rahman, Juhana Jaafar, Siti Khadijah Hubadillah, Zhong Sheng Tai
Pretreatment of produced water using ceramic membrane is considered promising due to its excellent separation performance and thermal and mechanical stabilities, however, the high cost of ceramic membranes discourages industries for large scale applications. The purpose of this work is to fabricate ceramic hollow fibre membranes from alumina-spinel composite powder synthesized from low-cost aluminium dross waste for the pretreatment of oily saline produced water. The hollow fibre membranes were prepared via phase inversion-based extrusion and sintering technique. Aluminium dross (less than 50 µm) was subjected to pre-treatment via water leaching and calcination, resulting in alumina (Al2O3) and spinel (MgAl2O4) as major constituents. Subsequently, the as-prepared alumina-spinel composite powder was used as a ceramic material in fabricating the hollow fibres.
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