Novel green synthesized zero valent iron (ZVI) nanoparticles of distinct mass fractions of 0.5, 1.5 and 2.5 wt. % are blended with cellulose acetate (CA) to prepare CA/ZVI mixed matrix membranes (MMMs). The thermal stability and roughness have been improved upon increasing the mass fraction of ZVI in CA. The morphology of prepared CA/ZVI membranes has been studied using transmission scanning electron microscopy (TEM). Pure water permeability (PWP) is increased while adding 0.5 wt. % of ZVI nanoparticles. When 2.5 wt. % is added, PWP decreased due to aggregation of ZVI nanoparticles in CA polymer matrix. The adsorption capacity of ZVI nanoparticles on CA/ZVI membrane during polymer enhanced ultrafiltration of textile effluent is also investigated. The equilibrium adsorption isotherms are well fitted with Freundlich model implying the influence of active adsorptive sites of ZVI nanoparticles.Recent trends in membrane separation involve mixed matrix membranes (MMMs) as they offer plethora of advantages such as higher removal efficiency and flow rate, excellent selectivity, reusability, superior kinetics and leaves smaller footprint 2, 3 . The unique physico-chemical, mechanical and functional properties of inorganic metal nanomaterials will be combined with the easy processibility of organic polymeric membrane for synthesizing MMMs 4 . Hence, blending of such metal nanoparticles enable to develop MMMs having (i) enhanced removal efficiency of the pollutants in the wastewater stream by means of adsorption and catalytic reaction, (ii) thermal stability for operating at very high temperatures 5-7 . Since the discovery of asymmetric membranes by Leob and Sourirajan 8 , cellulose acetate (CA) has been considered as an important polymeric material for its higher hydrophilicity and easy processibility. However, CA membrane having excessive fouling, lower pH and thermal stability, lesser reproducibility and so on 9, 10 necessitates modification for better performance. For modification of CA, both bulk and surface modification approaches such as blending, grafting, surface coating have been so far reported [11][12][13] . As the success of MMMs mostly depend on the control of interfacial defects between polymeric matrix and inorganic modifiers 14 , the choice of modifiers play an important role in novel MMMs synthesis.Zero valent iron (ZVI) nanoparticles, due to their high surface reactivity and smaller size 15 can transform complex pollutants such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs),