Background
In recent years, the reverse osmosis membrane separation technology has more and more remarkable advantages in the aspects of comprehensive energy consumption, resource cost and the like, and plays a significant role in the sea water desalination and sewage treatment industries. The membrane polyamide membrane is the most used reverse osmosis membrane at present, and has the advantages of higher flux and salt rejection rate, larger operation temperature and pH value adjustment range and convenient operation.
The polyamide membrane is usually prepared by an interfacial polymerization method, namely, polyamine and polyacyl chloride are contacted on a porous support body at one time to be polymerized into a polyamide layer on the surface interface of the porous support body. The porous support body mostly adopts a microfiltration membrane or an ultrafiltration membrane specially prepared for the polyamide reverse osmosis, and the porous support layer is required to enable an aqueous phase solution to be uniformly spread on the surface of the porous support body, so that a defect-free polyamide membrane layer can be further prepared. For porous support layers, requirements are generally made both in terms of pore size and hydrophilicity. Regarding the pore size, generally speaking, the larger the pore size of the porous support, the smaller the water molecule passing obstruction, the larger the water flux of the reverse osmosis membrane, but the too large pore size leads to the penetration of water phase into the pore during the polyamide preparation process, and the applicant has found that the pore size of about 10nm is most suitable for the preparation of the polyamide membrane. For hydrophilicity and hydrophobicity, the hydrophilicity and hydrophobicity of the porous support layer influence the interfacial polymerization process of polyamide, and good hydrophilicity is favorable for spreading of a water phase on the porous support layer. In order to improve the hydrophilicity of the supporting layer, the applicant tries to dope a hydrophilic molecular sieve, such as NaA molecular sieve, ZSM-5 molecular sieve, SAPO molecular sieve, etc., in the porous supporting layer, but on one hand, the framework structure containing aluminum inevitably causes the membrane to be acid-intolerant, which limits the application process, and on the other hand, the higher hydrophilicity also causes the water phase to be continuously adsorbed and transferred by NaA molecular sieve and to be difficult to spread on the porous supporting surface.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to overcome the technical problems, the invention improves the supporting layer of the existing polyamide reverse osmosis membrane, so that the polyamide reverse osmosis membrane has good performance in the aspects of pore diameter and hydrophilicity and hydrophobicity, which is beneficial to spreading of aqueous phase solution.
The acid-resistant polyamide reverse osmosis membrane is characterized by comprising a polyamide separation layer, wherein a double-layer supporting layer which is tightly attached is arranged on the same side of the separation layer, the double-layer supporting layer comprises a small hole supporting layer which is close to the polyamide separation layer and a large hole supporting layer which is adjacent to the small hole supporting layer, the hole diameter of the small hole supporting layer is about 5-20nm, the hole diameter of the large hole supporting layer is about 50-500nm, and the small hole supporting layer contains an all-silicon molecular sieve.
The macroporous supporting layer and the small pore supporting layer are prepared from the same high polymer material.
The polymer material is one of polysulfone, polyethersulfone, polyacrylonitrile, polytetrafluoroethylene and polyvinylidene fluoride.
The macroporous supporting layer is formed by dissolving calcium carbonate into inorganic acid to form pores, and the small pore supporting layer takes lithium chloride as a pore-forming agent.
The all-silicon molecular sieve is a Silicalite-1 molecular sieve.
A method of making the acid resistant reverse osmosis membrane described above, comprising:
(1) preparation of a double-layer support layer
(a) Preparing a casting solution: mixing polysulfone, lithium chloride, an all-silicon molecular sieve and a solvent, heating, stirring, standing and defoaming to form a first membrane casting solution, mixing the polysulfone, the solvent and calcium carbonate particles, heating, stirring, standing and defoaming to form a second membrane casting solution;
(b) preparing a primary film: at room temperature, uniformly scraping the first casting solution on a clean glass plate by using a scraper, and then transferring the first casting solution into a coagulating bath to perform phase conversion into a small-hole supporting layer; taking the small-hole supporting layer out of the coagulating bath, continuously scraping the second casting solution on the small-hole supporting layer by using a scraper, and then transferring the second casting solution into the coagulating bath to convert the second casting solution into a large-hole supporting layer so as to form a supporting layer embryonic membrane;
(c) and (3) post-treatment: completely soaking the support layer embryonic membrane in 0.05-0.1mol/L inorganic acid solution for 2-6 min; washing with clear water, soaking for 2-4h to form a double-layer supporting layer;
(2) preparation of polyamide reverse osmosis membrane
And (2) taking the double-layer supporting layer prepared in the step (1) as a supporting body to sequentially contact the polyamine aqueous phase solution and the polyacylchloride organic phase solution so as to realize the polymerization of the surface interface of the small-hole supporting layer of the double-layer supporting layer into the polyamide reverse osmosis membrane.
The multifunctional amine solution is one or more of m-phenylenediamine, p-phenylenediamine, piperazine, o-phenylenediamine, diaminotoluene and 2, 5-dimethylpiperazine, and the multifunctional acyl chloride is one or more of trimesoyl chloride, terephthaloyl chloride, phthaloyl chloride and isophthaloyl chloride.
The method of claim 6, wherein the size of the all-silica molecular sieve is 10-50 nm.
The first membrane casting solution contains 10-30wt% of polysulfone, 0.3-2wt% of lithium chloride, 0.2-1wt% of all-silicon molecular sieve and the balance of solvent; the content of polysulfone in the second membrane casting solution is 10-30wt%, the content of calcium carbonate particles is 2-5wt%, and the balance is solvent.
The aqueous polyamine solution comprises 0.1-4.0wt% polyamine, 0.005-1.0wt.% surfactant and pH adjusting agent, and has a pH range of 10-12; the polybasic acyl chloride organic phase solution contains 0.01-2wt% of polybasic acyl chloride, and the organic solvent is one of cyclohexane, hexane, n-heptane and octane.
Compared with the prior art, the water phase supporting layer is formed by combining the large pore supporting layer and the small pore supporting layer, on one hand, the large pore supporting layer can ensure good water flux, and the small pore supporting layer can ensure proper pore diameter to be beneficial to water phase spreading, on the other hand, the invention also improves the hydrophilicity of the supporting layer by hybridizing the all-silicon molecular sieve in the small pore supporting layer, avoids the situation of acid corrosion in the preparation process of the supporting layer and improves the integral acid resistance of the reverse osmosis membrane.
Detailed Description
Example 1
The polyamide reverse osmosis membrane prepared in this example was prepared by the following procedure
(1) Preparation of a double-layer support layer
(a) Preparing a casting solution: mixing polysulfone, lithium chloride, silicalite-1 molecular sieve and dimethylformamide, heating, stirring, standing and defoaming to form a first membrane casting solution, wherein the content of the polysulfone in the first membrane casting solution is 20 wt%, the content of the lithium chloride is 0.5 wt%, the content of the silicalite-1 molecular sieve is 0.5 wt%, and the balance is solvent dimethylformamide; mixing polysulfone, a solvent and calcium carbonate particles, heating, stirring, standing and defoaming to form a second membrane casting solution, wherein the content of polysulfone in the second membrane casting solution is 20 wt%, the content of calcium carbonate particles is 2wt%, and the balance is the solvent.
(b) Preparing a primary film: at room temperature, uniformly scraping the first casting solution on a clean glass plate by using a scraper, and then transferring the first casting solution into a coagulating bath to perform phase conversion into a small-hole supporting layer; taking the small-hole supporting layer out of the coagulating bath, continuously scraping the second casting solution on the small-hole supporting layer by using a scraper, and then transferring the second casting solution into the coagulating bath to convert the second casting solution into a large-hole supporting layer so as to form a supporting layer embryonic membrane;
(c) and (3) post-treatment: completely soaking the support layer embryonic membrane in 0.1mol/L hydrochloric acid solution for 5 min; washing with clear water, soaking for 4h to form a double-layer supporting layer;
(2) preparation of polyamide reverse osmosis membrane
Mixing 2.0 wt% of m-phenylenediamine, 0.05 wt% of surfactant sodium dodecyl sulfate and pH regulator sodium hydroxide in pure water to prepare a polyamine aqueous phase solution with the pH value of 11; adding 0.1 wt% of trimesoyl chloride into cyclohexane to form a polybasic acyl chloride organic phase solution;
and (2) taking the double-layer supporting layer prepared in the step (1) as a supporting body, firstly contacting the polyamine aqueous phase solution for 120s, taking out the supporting layer, removing the surface solution, and then continuously immersing the supporting layer into the polyacyl chloride organic phase solution for 60s to realize the polymerization of the surface interface of the small-hole supporting layer of the double-layer supporting layer into the polyamide reverse osmosis membrane.
Comparative example 1
(1) Preparation of the supporting layer
Mixing polysulfone, lithium chloride and dimethylformamide, heating, stirring, standing and defoaming to form a membrane casting solution, wherein the content of polysulfone in the membrane casting solution is 20 wt%, the content of lithium chloride is 0.5 wt%, and the balance is solvent dimethylformamide; at room temperature, uniformly scraping the casting solution on a clean glass plate by using a scraper, and then transferring the glass plate into a coagulating bath to perform phase conversion into a supporting layer;
(2) preparation of polyamide reverse osmosis membrane
Mixing 2.0 wt% of m-phenylenediamine, 0.05 wt% of surfactant sodium dodecyl sulfate and pH regulator sodium hydroxide in pure water to prepare a polyamine aqueous phase solution with the pH value of 11; adding 0.1 wt% of trimesoyl chloride into cyclohexane to form a polybasic acyl chloride organic phase solution;
and (2) taking the support layer prepared in the step (1) as a support body, firstly contacting the polyamine aqueous phase solution for 120s, taking out the support layer, removing the surface solution, and then continuously immersing the support layer into the polyacyl chloride organic phase solution for 60s to realize the polymerization of the surface interface of the support layer into the polyamide reverse osmosis membrane.
Comparative example 2
(1) Preparation of the supporting layer
Mixing polysulfone, a solvent and calcium carbonate particles, heating, stirring, standing and defoaming to form a membrane casting solution; at room temperature, uniformly scraping the membrane liquid on a clean glass plate by using a scraper, and then transferring the membrane liquid into a coagulating bath to perform phase conversion into a supporting layer embryonic membrane; completely soaking the support layer embryonic membrane in 0.1mol/L hydrochloric acid solution for 5 min; washing with clear water, and soaking for 4h to form a supporting layer;
(2) preparation of polyamide reverse osmosis membrane
Mixing 2.0 wt% of m-phenylenediamine, 0.05 wt% of surfactant sodium dodecyl sulfate and pH regulator sodium hydroxide in pure water to prepare a polyamine aqueous phase solution with the pH value of 11; adding 0.1 wt% of trimesoyl chloride into cyclohexane to form a polybasic acyl chloride organic phase solution;
and (2) taking the support layer prepared in the step (1) as a support body, firstly contacting the polyamine aqueous phase solution for 120s, taking out the support layer, removing the surface solution, and then continuously immersing the support layer into the polyacyl chloride organic phase solution for 60s to realize the polymerization of the surface interface of the support layer into the polyamide reverse osmosis membrane.
Comparative example 3
(1) Preparation of the supporting layer
(a) Preparing a casting solution: mixing polysulfone, lithium chloride and dimethylformamide, heating, stirring, standing and defoaming to form a first membrane casting solution, wherein the content of the polysulfone in the first membrane casting solution is 20 wt%, the content of the lithium chloride is 0.5 wt%, and the balance is solvent dimethylformamide; mixing polysulfone, a solvent and calcium carbonate particles, heating, stirring, standing and defoaming to form a second membrane casting solution;
(b) preparing a primary film: at room temperature, uniformly scraping the first casting solution on a clean glass plate by using a scraper, and then transferring the first casting solution into a coagulating bath to perform phase conversion into a small-hole supporting layer; taking the small-hole supporting layer out of the coagulating bath, continuously scraping the second casting solution on the small-hole supporting layer by using a scraper, and then transferring the second casting solution into the coagulating bath to convert the second casting solution into a large-hole supporting layer so as to form a supporting layer embryonic membrane;
(c) and (3) post-treatment: completely soaking the support layer embryonic membrane in 0.1mol/L hydrochloric acid solution for 5 min; washing with clear water, soaking for 4h to form a double-layer supporting layer;
(2) preparation of polyamide reverse osmosis membrane
Mixing 2.0 wt% of m-phenylenediamine, 0.05 wt% of surfactant sodium dodecyl sulfate and pH regulator sodium hydroxide in pure water to prepare a polyamine aqueous phase solution with the pH value of 11; adding 0.1 wt% of trimesoyl chloride into cyclohexane to form a polybasic acyl chloride organic phase solution;
and (2) taking the double-layer supporting layer prepared in the step (1) as a supporting body, firstly contacting the polyamine aqueous phase solution for 120s, taking out the supporting layer, removing the surface solution, and then continuously immersing the supporting layer into the polyacyl chloride organic phase solution for 60s to realize the polymerization of the surface interface of the small-hole supporting layer of the double-layer supporting layer into the polyamide reverse osmosis membrane.
The polyamide reverse osmosis membrane samples prepared in example 1 and comparative examples 1 to 3 above were tested for initial performance of the membrane using 2000ppm of aqueous sodium chloride solution at 30 ℃ under 1MPa pressure, and the test results are shown in the following table:
sample (I)
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Salt rejection (%)
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Water flux (L/m)2.h)
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Example 1
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98.9
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62.1
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Comparative example 1
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99.2
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32.4
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Comparative example 2
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58.2
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79.3
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Comparative example 3
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95.2
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56.3 |
As can be seen from the data, the polyamide reverse osmosis membrane sample prepared by the embodiment maintains higher levels in the aspects of salt rejection rate and water flux, and proves that the polyamide reverse osmosis membrane sample is beneficial to spreading of aqueous phase solution on the surface of a support and subsequent interfacial polymerization reaction.
The above is the embodiment of the present invention. It should be noted that, for a person skilled in the art, several modifications and adaptations can be made without departing from the basic inventive concept and are therefore considered to be within the scope of the present invention.