New ceramic microfiltration membranes from Tunisian natural materials: Application for the cuttlefish effluents treatment

Composite ceramic membranes from natural aluminosilicates for microfiltration applications

“…Interesting support porosity (40-52%) and average pore size between 15 and 27 μm are shown. Similar porosities and pore size were reported in literature [50][51][52] for other type of ceramic based inorganic membrane. As expected, the pore size was influenced by the raw material composition and the mean particle size.…”

Influence of starch content on the properties of low-cost microfiltration ceramic membranes

“…The properties of the ceramic membranes are mainly determined by their composition, the pore-former content and the sintering temperature. The proposed compositions of low-cost ceramic membranes are very wide, depending on the nature of their raw materials: local clays [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] and kaolin [11][12][13] , sepiolite 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 3 2 µm and apparent porosities increased from 23 to 44% as the added amount of starch rose from 0 wt% to 15 wt% [9], whereas in ball clay membranes the apparent porosity increased from 9 to 32% as the added amount of starch augmented from 0 wt% to 35 wt% (no data about pore sizes were published) [10].…”

Application of Cross‐Flow Microfiltration for Purifying Solvent Naphtha with Ceramic Membranes

“…Ceramic membranes offer several advantages, including stability at high temperature and pressure resistance, good chemical stability, good fouling resistance properties, high mechanical resistance, and high separation efficiency as well as a long lifetime [13][14][15][16][17][18]. It has wide industrial applications covering many existing and emerging use in the chemical, environmental, water treatment, pharmaceutical, and food industries [19,20]. Also, it is possible to separate the impure solvent naphtha by using ceramic membrane microfiltration.…”