Finned spacer panel system for fouling control in Chlorella vulgaris harvesting

Membrane filtration has been proved as a viable harvesting candidate to harvest microalgae for biofuels application. Though largely limited by membrane fouling that lowers overall process efficiency. The novel finned spacer is proposed to reduce fouling control in Chlorella vulgaris harvesting. The...

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Main Authors: Ain Nabilah, N.N., Rahmawati, R., Bilad, M.R., Pratiwi, A.E., Elma, M., Jusoh, N.
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Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas
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Published: Institute of Physics Publishing 2020
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spelling utp-eprints.246172021-08-27T08:25:26Z Finned spacer panel system for fouling control in Chlorella vulgaris harvesting Ain Nabilah, N.N. Rahmawati, R. Bilad, M.R. Pratiwi, A.E. Elma, M. Jusoh, N. Membrane filtration has been proved as a viable harvesting candidate to harvest microalgae for biofuels application. Though largely limited by membrane fouling that lowers overall process efficiency. The novel finned spacer is proposed to reduce fouling control in Chlorella vulgaris harvesting. The assessment of this work is focusing on these aspects: evaluation performance of finned spacer in directing air bubbles toward the membrane surface, study the effect of fin's gap on membrane fouling control perfor mance, the impact of aeration rate on membrane fouling control and operation under fins switching mode. Effectiveness of finned spacer has been obviously proved by its function to direct and encourage air bubbles toward the membrane surface thus improve their contacts and their foulant scouring impact. The projection of air bubbles is more effective at the narrowest fins gap applied of about 2cm gap. The increasing aeration rate proportionally increases flux of 90 L/(m2.h) at 1.5 L/min aeration. Switching mode was applied to increase module packing density without reducing specific membrane performance. It was found effective at periods of below 5 min. Overall results are very encouraging and promising to obtain significant improvement in fouling control for C. vulgaris filtration. Further study on fundamental aspects as well as parameters optimization can still be done to increase the finned spacer efficiency. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd. Institute of Physics Publishing 2020 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85081369511&doi=10.1088%2f1757-899X%2f736%2f6%2f062009&partnerID=40&md5=325abc1598f6751da784634afff52928 Ain Nabilah, N.N. and Rahmawati, R. and Bilad, M.R. and Pratiwi, A.E. and Elma, M. and Jusoh, N. (2020) Finned spacer panel system for fouling control in Chlorella vulgaris harvesting. In: UNSPECIFIED. http://eprints.utp.edu.my/24617/
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description Membrane filtration has been proved as a viable harvesting candidate to harvest microalgae for biofuels application. Though largely limited by membrane fouling that lowers overall process efficiency. The novel finned spacer is proposed to reduce fouling control in Chlorella vulgaris harvesting. The assessment of this work is focusing on these aspects: evaluation performance of finned spacer in directing air bubbles toward the membrane surface, study the effect of fin's gap on membrane fouling control perfor mance, the impact of aeration rate on membrane fouling control and operation under fins switching mode. Effectiveness of finned spacer has been obviously proved by its function to direct and encourage air bubbles toward the membrane surface thus improve their contacts and their foulant scouring impact. The projection of air bubbles is more effective at the narrowest fins gap applied of about 2cm gap. The increasing aeration rate proportionally increases flux of 90 L/(m2.h) at 1.5 L/min aeration. Switching mode was applied to increase module packing density without reducing specific membrane performance. It was found effective at periods of below 5 min. Overall results are very encouraging and promising to obtain significant improvement in fouling control for C. vulgaris filtration. Further study on fundamental aspects as well as parameters optimization can still be done to increase the finned spacer efficiency. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Ain Nabilah, N.N.
Rahmawati, R.
Bilad, M.R.
Pratiwi, A.E.
Elma, M.
Jusoh, N.
spellingShingle Ain Nabilah, N.N.
Rahmawati, R.
Bilad, M.R.
Pratiwi, A.E.
Elma, M.
Jusoh, N.
Finned spacer panel system for fouling control in Chlorella vulgaris harvesting
author_sort Ain Nabilah, N.N.
title Finned spacer panel system for fouling control in Chlorella vulgaris harvesting
title_short Finned spacer panel system for fouling control in Chlorella vulgaris harvesting
title_full Finned spacer panel system for fouling control in Chlorella vulgaris harvesting
title_fullStr Finned spacer panel system for fouling control in Chlorella vulgaris harvesting
title_full_unstemmed Finned spacer panel system for fouling control in Chlorella vulgaris harvesting
title_sort finned spacer panel system for fouling control in chlorella vulgaris harvesting
publisher Institute of Physics Publishing
publishDate 2020
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