TY - JOUR
T1 - Application of membrane distillation for the treatment of oil field produced water
AU - Al-Salmi, Moza
AU - Laqbaqbi, Mourad
AU - Al-Obaidani, Sulaiman
AU - Al-Maamari, Rashid S.
AU - Khayet, Mohamed
AU - Al-Abri, Mohammed
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2020/11/15
Y1 - 2020/11/15
N2 - Direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) was investigated for the treatment of oil-field produced water using a hydrophobic polypropylene (PP) membrane with 0.2 μm pore size. The DCMD performance was studied under different feed temperatures ranged from 40 °C to 80 °C while the cooling temperature was maintained at 23 °C. Increasing the feed water temperature resulted in a higher permeate water flux. Stable and reliable DCMD membrane performance was observed for all used membranes. The obtained results indicated the great potential of DCMD to treat hypersaline oil-field produced water with an overall rejection of salts higher than 99.9% and that of total organic carbon (TOC) greater than 93.3%. This was due to the presence of volatile organic compounds in oil-field water. Pre-treatment of produced water using 0.45 μm filter did not show much effect on the DCMD performance. A slight gradual reduction of the permeate flux was observed due to fouling phenomenon. A simple washing the membrane with de-ionized water was found to be an effective method for cleaning the membrane and restoring the permeate flux indicating the absence of irreversible fouling.
AB - Direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) was investigated for the treatment of oil-field produced water using a hydrophobic polypropylene (PP) membrane with 0.2 μm pore size. The DCMD performance was studied under different feed temperatures ranged from 40 °C to 80 °C while the cooling temperature was maintained at 23 °C. Increasing the feed water temperature resulted in a higher permeate water flux. Stable and reliable DCMD membrane performance was observed for all used membranes. The obtained results indicated the great potential of DCMD to treat hypersaline oil-field produced water with an overall rejection of salts higher than 99.9% and that of total organic carbon (TOC) greater than 93.3%. This was due to the presence of volatile organic compounds in oil-field water. Pre-treatment of produced water using 0.45 μm filter did not show much effect on the DCMD performance. A slight gradual reduction of the permeate flux was observed due to fouling phenomenon. A simple washing the membrane with de-ionized water was found to be an effective method for cleaning the membrane and restoring the permeate flux indicating the absence of irreversible fouling.
KW - Fouling
KW - Membrane distillation
KW - Oil-field produced water
KW - Polypropylene membrane
KW - Water treatment
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U2 - 10.1016/j.desal.2020.114678
DO - 10.1016/j.desal.2020.114678
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85089563104
SN - 0011-9164
VL - 494
JO - Desalination
JF - Desalination
M1 - 114678
ER -