• Membrane Journal
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.390-400
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• 2022

Nanofiltration (NF) membranes are more popular than reverse osmosis (RO) membranes as they can be operated at much lower pressures for applications in treatment of wastewater from industries like food processing and pharmaceutical as well as municipal sewage water. The separation mechanism in case of NF membranes is based on solution diffusion as well as sieving, for which the crosslinking density of the thin film of the composite membrane is less then RO membrane. Unlike ceramic membranes, membrane fouling is one of the chronic problems that occur during the nanofiltration process in polymeric membranes. Membrane cleaning is done to get rid of reversible as well as irreversible fouling by treatment with sodium hypochlorite. Compared to polymeric membranes, ceramic membranes show higher stability against these agents. In this review different types of ceramic membrane applied wastewater treatment by NF process are discussed.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.191-202
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• 1998

The emission standards for diesel particulates have been continued to become tighter. This article reviews the pore and how to filtering characteristics and how to design the ceramic honeycomb filter which is generally used for diesel particulate filter. And the properties and fabrication methods of other particulate filters, i.e. ceramic fiber candle filter, ceramic foam filter, ceramic cross-flow filter and metal filter, are presented in this review. The results show that though the various filters have been developed and tested in the field, the more efforts are needed for the commercilaization of the diesel particulate filter.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.1-11
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• 1993

막분리 공정의 응용범위 및 시장규모가 증가함에 따라 최근 기능성 멤브레인의 개발에 대한 많은 연구가 시도되고 있으나 아직까지도 매우 한정된 범위의 유기질 분리막만이 실용화되고 있을 뿐이다. 막분리 공정의 응용성은 분리막의 특성에 의하여 좌우될 수 있는데 현재 주로 사용되고 있는 유기질막은 열적, 기계적, 화학 및 생물학적 안정성이 낮고 세척에 의한 재생성이 용이하지 않기 때문에 차후 이들을 대체하여 모든 조업조건하에서 효율적으로 장기간 사용될 수 잇는 세라믹 멤브레인의 개발이 요구되고 있는실정이다. 특히 2000년도 초반부터는 종래의 유기질막으로서는 기대할 수 없는 고기능성을 부여할 수 있는 세라믹 멤브레인의 공업적 수요가 급증하여 분리막 공정에서 상당한 비중을 점유하게 될것으로 예상되고 있으나 현재 막의 제조 및 응용에 대한 기술이 확립되어 있지 않아서 공업적인 실용화가 이루어지지 못하고 있다.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.51-59
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• 2005

수소 분리막의 적용 분야는 석탄가스, 천연가스, 메탄가스 혼합기체이며, 고온/고압 및 수소농도가 낮은 혼합기체에서 고순도의 수소를 제조하는 곳이다. 특히 치밀질 세라믹 멤브레인은 고온에서 가스화한 석탄가스나 차세대의 쓰레기 처리 기술인 가스화 용융처리에서 생긴 고온가스로부터 고순도의 수소를 분리할 수 있다. 분리한 수소는 고온을 유지하기 때문에 연료전지 발전에 최적이다. 종래의 연료전지는 발전을 위해서 수소의 가열이 필요했으나 이것이 불필요하게 되어 발전 전체의 효율이 향상된다. 석유화학 산업에서 발생하는 혼합기체에서 수소를 분리하여 사용하고 남은 기체는 연료로 재사용할 수 있다. 분리막의 재질로는 고분자계가 개발되고 있으며 고분자 지지체에 백금이나 로듐과 같은 촉매를 코팅하는 방법이다. 이는 기공의 제어가 용이하고 대량생산이 가능한 장점이 있지만 고온에서 사용이 불가능하고 입자상 물질에 의해 분리막의 손상이 문제가 되고 있다. 이에 비해 치밀질 세라믹 멤브레인은 세라믹의 특성에 의해 고온 및 고압에서도 적용이 가능하며, 실온이나 저압의 조건에서도 적용이 가능한 특징을 가진다. $900^{\circ}C$의 고온에서 적용시 세라믹 멤브레인에는 특성열화가 없어 수명이 긴 장점을 가지게 된다. 수소가 포함되어 있는 기체에서 수소 만을 분리하는 방법은 흡착이나 분리막을 이용하는 방법이 일반적이며 흡착에 의한 방법은 일부 실용화가 진행되고 있다. 고효율의 수소를 분리하는 방법으로 분리막을 이용하는 방법이 있다. 현재 치밀질 수소 분리막의 연구는 외국(미국, 일본 등)에서도 초기 연구 단계이다. 국내에서도 이런 연구가 선행되어 외국과의 기술 격차를 줄이고 에너지 자원에 대한 확보가 필요하기 때문에 이 연구가 수행되었다. 치밀질 멤브레인의 소재로는 proton 및 전자전도가 가능한 소재로서 Ba-Ce-Y계를 기본조성으로 하여 내구성과 전기전도도를 향상시키기 위해 Ca, La, In, Yb를 치환하였다. 제조한 재료의 물리화학적 특성을 평가하였고, 수소여과 장치를 이용하여 여과 효율을 평가하였다.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.419-424
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• 2014

Direct ethanol fuel cell has been fabricated with ceramic membrane. A porous silicon carbide (SiC) membrane having approximately 30% porosity has been applied for a direct ethanol proton exchange membrane (DE-PEM) fuel cell. A horizontal type cell having Pt ($18mg/cm^2$) catalyst layer on both side of the ceramic membrane was used for the demonstration test. The ethanol oxidation based-fuel cell stack showed very high voltage (1.289V) and measurable current level (68mA) even though at room temperature.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.265-274
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• 2022

Separation of oily wastewater, which is a byproduct of various industries such as petroleum refineries, is essential to not exceed the tolerance limit of wastewater streams. Ceramic membranes show potential in oily wastewater separation, due to their excellent oil removal efficiency, good chemical, thermal, and mechanical stability, and simple operation. However, widespread application of ceramic membranes is limited due to high material cost of alumina, silica, and other ceramic based materials used to fabricate them. Recent efforts to reduce material cost have been made, using fly ash and clay. This review examines the fabrication and efficiency of ceramic membranes in oily wastewater separation according to material: silica, alumina, and waste ash.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.328-335
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• 2017

Fabricating photocatalytic composite membrane with a mesoporous and tailored morphological structure would have significant implication for environmental remediation. In this study, we reported hybrid $TiO_2$ immobilized photocatalytic membrane and its application for the treatment of dye solution. Photocatalytic film with high porosity and homogeneity was fabricated by graft copolymer as polymer template. Hybridization of membrane filtration with photocatalysis was successfully achieved by photocatalytic membrane reactor developed. Result showed that membrane permeability was significantly reduced after immobilizing the $TiO_2$ film on bare $Al_2O_3$ support. The membrane characterization indicated that well organized $TiO_2$ film was successfully formed on $Al_2O_3$ support. Benefiting from the controlled morphology of $TiO_2$ film, the composite membrane exhibited almost complete degradation of organic dye within 5 h of filtration under UV illumination. Langmuir-Hinshelwood model explained degradation of organic dye. First-order rate constant was approximately six times with $TiO_2$ immobilized composite ceramic membrane, higher than the one with the bare $Al_2O_3$ support (0.0081 vs. $0.0013min^{-1}$).

• Membrane Journal
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.77-94
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• 2012

Amorphous ceramic membranes have been developed for gas phase separation and liquid phase separation (water treatment, wastewater treatment and separation of organic solvent or compounds) because of their thermal stability and solvent resistance. In this paper, ceramic membranes were categorized by membrane pore size and materials, and summarized for hydrogen separation, carbon dioxide separation, membrane reactor, pervaporation and water treatment with membrane structure and properties.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.354-361
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• 2008

Effects of operational conditions and solution chemistry on permeate flux in a hybrid ozone-ceramic ultra-filtration (UF) membrane system treating natural organic matter (NOM) were investigated. Results showed that the extent of permeate flux decline was higher at higher cross-flow velocity and ozone dosage, but it was higher at lower transmembrane pressure (TMP). The mechanism of fouling mitigation was found to be more dependent upon reaction between ozone and natural organic matter at/near catalytic membrane surface than scouring effect due to ozone gas bubbles. Addition of calcium into model NOM solution at high pH led to significant decline in permeate flux while the calcium effect on permeate flux decline was less pronounced at lower pH. After permeate flux decline during the early stage of filtration, the flux started recovering and approached fully to the initial value of it due to degradation of NOM by catalytic ozonation at ceramic membrane surface in the hybrid ozone-ceramic membrane system.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.117-129
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• 1998

The atmospheric pollution by diesel emission is mainly attributed to particulate matters and NO$_x$. Their regulation limits have become tighter. This paper reviews the characteristics and the fabrication method of the diesd particulate filter(DPF) which is used to control the particulate matters of diesel emission. First the constituent of particulate matters and the regulation standard are discussed and then the state of the art post-treatment system is reviewed. The materials, the fabrication method and the control of thermal expansion of the ceramic honeycomb filter, which is widely used as the DPF, are also reviewed.