Modeling the Rejection Performance of Hollow Fiber Nanofiltration Membranes Modified by Negatively Charged-Modifying Macromolecule

Hollow fiber membranes using Polyethersulfone (PES) were fabricated in-house using phase inversion technique by modification with synthesized charged-surface modifying macromolecules (cSMM). The cSMM comprise with end-group component of Hydroxybenzene sulfonate or Hydroxybenzene carboxylate. The electrical properties of the membranes were modeled by utilizing the combination of irreversible thermodynamic model, Steric-Hindrance Pore (SHP) model and Teorell-Meyer-Sievers (TMS) model. The negatively-charged of the modified hollow fiber membranes was calculated based on sodium chloride rejection performance. The analysis of the modeling results revealed that sulfonate induce negative 1.61 electrical properties compared to carboxylate that is negative 1.49 for the modified PES membranes.