Fabrication and Evaluation of Filtration Membranes from Industrial Polymer Waste.

ABSTRACT: Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) polymers are known for their diverse range of industrial applications and are considered important raw materials for membrane manufacturing. In view of circularity and resource efficiency, the present work mainly deals with the reusability of waste polymer 'gels' produced during the manufacturing of PVDF membranes. Herein, solidified PVDF gels were first prepared from polymer solutions as model waste gels, which were then subsequently used to prepare membranes via the phase inversion process. The structural analysis of fabricated membranes confirmed the retention of molecular integrity even after reprocessing, whereas the morphological analysis showed a symmetric bi-continuous porous structure. The filtration performance of membranes fabricated from waste gel

SUBMITTER: Bano S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10143593 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature