Pretreated aluminium dross waste as a source of inexpensive alumina-spinel composite ceramic hollow fibre membrane for pretreatment of oily saline produced water

• Main Authors: Abd. Aziz, Mohd. Haiqal, Othman, Mohd. Hafiz Dzarfan, Hashim, Nur Awanis, A. Rahman, Mukhlis, Jaafar, Juhana, Hubadillah, Siti Khadijah, Tai, Zhong Sheng
• Format: Article
• Published: Elsevier Ltd. 2019
• Subjects: TP Chemical technology
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/88817/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2018.10.110

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...