Effect of Water Quality on Rejection of Selected Human and Veterinary Antibiotics by Nanofiltration and Reverse Osmosis Membranes
水质对纳滤膜和反渗透膜截留选定人类和兽医抗生素的影响
This study addresses the possibility for nanofiltration (NF) and reverse osmosis (RO) membrane
processes to serve as an alternative to remove low levels of selected antibiotics from wastewaters
and surface waters given changing water conditions such as pH and presence of natural organic
matter (NOM). Preliminary experimental results obtained with a dead-end filtration apparatus
suggest that adsorption of antibiotics onto the membrane surface is negligible. However,
removal is greatly affected by changes in pH due to changes in electrostatic repulsion between
charged antibiotics and membrane surfaces. Both the pore diffusion model for NF and the
solution diffusion model for RO will be applied to further understand the mechanisms and trends
behind the experimental data. Includes 17 references, table, figure.