SEPARATION MEMBRANE MODULE FOR OIL-CONTAINING WASTEWATER TREATMENT, OIL-CONTAINING WASTEWATER TREATMENT METHOD, AND OIL-CONTAINING WASTEWATER TREATMENT APPARATUS

• US 20120103904A1
• Filed: 02/17/2010
• Published: 05/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Fine Polymer Incorporated (Sumitomo Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Fine Polymer Incorporated (Sumitomo Corporation)
• Inventors: Morita, Toru, Ida, Kiyoshi
• Application Number:
  US13/377,690
• Publication Number:
  US 20120103904A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 210/650
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2311/25 Recirculation, recycling or bypass, e.g. recirculation of concentrate into the feed
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2315/06 Submerged-type; Immersion type
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2321/185 Aeration
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2325/22 Thermal or heat-resistance properties
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2325/30 Chemical resistance
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 61/147 Microfiltration
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 61/18 Apparatus therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 63/02 Hollow fibre modules
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 63/023 Encapsulating materials
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 71/36 Polytetrafluoroethene
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 71/68 Polysulfones; Polyethersulfones
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/444 by ultrafiltration or microfiltration
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 2101/32 Hydrocarbons, e.g. oil

Abstract

Provided is a separation membrane module which is suitable for filtration of oil-containing wastewater. The separation membrane module for oil-containing wastewater treatment separates water-insoluble oil from oil-containing wastewater that has high turbidity and/or high temperature. The separation membrane module for oil-containing wastewater treatment is characterized by using a hollow fiber membrane which is composed of an alkali-resistant porous membrane selected from polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), polysulfone (PSF), and polyether sulfone (PES) and which has a tensile strength of 30 N or more, and characterized in that each of the hollow fiber membrane and an end-sealing member of the hollow fiber membrane has a heat distortion temperature of 100° C. or higher.

Claims

1. A separation membrane module for oil-containing wastewater treatment, which separates water-insoluble oil from oil-containing wastewater that has high turbidity and/or high temperature, the separation membrane module being characterized by using a hollow fiber membrane which is composed of an alkali-resistant porous membrane selected from polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), polysulfone (PSF), and polyether sulfone (PES) and which has a tensile strength of 30 N or more,

wherein the hollow fiber membrane has a heat distortion temperature of 100°

C. or higher; and

an end-sealing member of the hollow fiber membrane is composed of a thermosetting resin having a heat distortion temperature of 100°

C. or higher or a hot-melt resin having a melting point that is 1.5 times or more the operating temperature.

2. The separation membrane module for oil-containing wastewater treatment according to claim 1, wherein the oil-containing wastewater to be filtered with the separation membrane module contains water-insoluble oil having a kinematic viscosity of 1 to 600 cSt at 40°

C. and a density of 0.7 to 1.0 g/cm³ at 15°

C.

3. The separation membrane module for oil-containing wastewater treatment according to claim 1, wherein the oil-containing wastewater to be filtered with the separation membrane module contains 3 to 2,000 mg/L of water-insoluble oil having a viscosity of 0.1 to 5.0 mPa·

s at 20°

C., and treated water filtered with the filtration membrane has an oil content of 0.1 to 10 mg/L.

4. The separation membrane module for oil-containing wastewater treatment according to claim 1, wherein the oil-containing wastewater to be filtered with the separation membrane module has a suspended solid concentration of 5 to 10,000 mg/L.

5. The separation membrane module for oil-containing wastewater treatment according to claim 1, wherein the oil-containing wastewater to be filtered with the separation membrane module has a temperature of 60°

C. to 200°

C.

6. The separation membrane module for oil-containing wastewater treatment according to claim 1, wherein the hollow fiber membrane is any one of a single layer, a porous double layer including a support layer and a filtration layer stacked at least on the outer side of the support layer, and an asymmetric filtration membrane.

7. The separation membrane module for oil-containing wastewater treatment according to claim 1, wherein the tensile strength of the hollow fiber membrane is 30 to 150 N at 25°

C. and the hollow fiber membrane has an IPA bubble point of 50 to 400 kPa.

8. The separation membrane module for oil-containing wastewater treatment according to claim 1, wherein the hollow fiber membrane is a porous double-layer hollow fiber membrane in which a porous stretched PTFE sheet is wound around a porous stretched PTFE tube.

9. The separation membrane module for oil-containing wastewater treatment according to claim 1, wherein the hollow fiber membrane has a mean pore diameter of 0.01 to 1 μ

m.

10. The separation membrane module for oil-containing wastewater treatment according to claim 1,

wherein when a plurality of the hollow fiber membranes are formed into an assembly, and the assembly is housed in an inside of an external cylinder,

an external pressure filtration type or external pressure circulation filtration type module is formed in which each hollow fiber membrane has an open end and a closed end;

and the module includes an inlet portion for introducing the oil-containing wastewater into the inside of the external cylinder, an outlet portion for a filtered, treated liquid, the outlet portion communicating with the open end of each hollow fiber membrane, and a discharge portion for a non-filtered liquid that has not been filtered, the discharge portion communicating with the external cylinder;

or

an internal pressure filtration type or internal pressure circulation filtration type module is formed in which each hollow fiber membrane has two open ends; and

the module includes an inlet portion for introducing the oil-containing wastewater into one of the open ends of each hollow fiber membrane, a discharge portion for discharging a non-filtered liquid that has not been filtered from the other open end, and an outlet portion for a filtered, treated liquid, the outlet portion communicating with the inside of the external cylinder; and

alternatively, wherein when a plurality of the hollow fiber membranes are formed into an assembly, and the assembly is placed in an immersion tank with the oil-containing wastewater,

an immersion filtration type module is formed in which each hollow fiber membrane has an open end and a closed end; and

the module includes an outlet portion for a filtered, treated liquid, the outlet portion communicating with the open end of each hollow fiber membrane.

11. The separation membrane module for oil-containing wastewater treatment according to claim 10, wherein the hollow fiber membranes used for the external pressure filtration type or external pressure circulation filtration type module have an outside diameter of 1 to 5 mm, an inside diameter of 0.5 to 4 mm, and a porosity of 30% to 90%;

and

the hollow fiber membranes used for the internal pressure filtration type or internal pressure circulation type module have an outside diameter of 1.3 to 20 mm, an inside diameter of 1 to 10 mm, and a porosity of 30% to 90%.

12. The separation membrane module for oil-containing wastewater treatment according to claim 10, wherein the shortest distance between outer peripheries of adjacent hollow fiber membranes is 0.5 to 5 mm.

13. The separation membrane module for oil-containing wastewater treatment according to claim 10, wherein the filling factor of the hollow fiber membranes relative to the cross-sectional area of the assembly is 20% to 60%.

14. The separation membrane module for oil-containing wastewater treatment according to claim 10, wherein an air diffusion pipe is disposed at the lower portion of the assembly of the hollow fiber membranes arranged in a vertical direction or disposed for a pipe connected to the lower portion of the external cylinder of the separation membrane module, and the separation membrane module includes backwashing means which sends under pressure a treated liquid as a backwashing liquid into the hollow fiber membranes from the outlet portion for the treated liquid.

15. An oil-containing wastewater treatment method using the separation membrane module for oil-containing wastewater treatment according to claim 1, wherein oil-containing wastewater having a water-insoluble oil content (n-hexane value) of 3 to 2,000 mg/L is treated under filtration conditions in which the transmembrane differential pressure is 50 kPa or less when the IPA bubble point of the hollow fiber membrane is 50 kPa or more and less than 100 kPa, the transmembrane differential pressure is 100 kPa or less when the IPA bubble point is 100 kPa or more and less than 150 kPa, and the transmembrane differential pressure is 200 kPa or less when the IPA bubble point is 150 kPa or more and 400 kPa or less;

and the water-insoluble oil content in filtration treated water is less than 5 mg/L in the case where the water-insoluble oil content in oil-containing wastewater is 10 mg/L or more and 2,000 mg/L or less, and the water-insoluble oil content in filtration treated water is less than 1 mg/L in the case where the water-insoluble oil content in oil-containing wastewater is 3 mg/L or more and less than 10 mg/L.

16. An oil-containing wastewater treatment method using the separation membrane module for oil-containing wastewater treatment according to claim 1, characterized in that, in the case where the water-insoluble oil content in oil-containing wastewater is 3 to 200 mg/L and the concentration of suspended solids (SS) is 100 mg/L or less, external pressure-type all filtration is performed in which all of liquid to be treated is passed through the hollow fiber membrane, and in the case where the water-insoluble oil content in oil-containing wastewater is more than 200 mg/L and 2,000 mg/L or less or the concentration of suspended solids (SS) is 100 to 20,000 mg/L, internal pressure circulation-type or external pressure circulation-type filtration is performed in which liquid to be treated is circulated.

17. An oil-containing wastewater treatment method using the separation membrane module for oil-containing wastewater treatment according to claim 1, wherein after oil-field wastewater is subjected to pretreatment to reduce the water-insoluble oil content (n-hexane value), the resulting oil-containing wastewater is subjected to microfiltration with the separation membrane module.

18. The oil-containing wastewater treatment method according to claim 17, wherein the pretreatment is pressure floatation treatment or electrical coagulation/electrical floatation treatment, and the n-hexane value after the treatment is 10 to 100 mg/L.

19. An oil-containing wastewater treatment method using the separation membrane module for oil-containing wastewater treatment according to claim 1, wherein oil-containing wastewater has an oil content of 20 to 2,000 mg/L and a suspended component content of 100 to 10,000 mg/L, and is heated at 60°

C. to 200°

C., and the heated oil-containing wastewater is subjected to filtration treatment with the separation membrane module such that the water-insoluble oil content is 5 mg/L or less and the suspended component content is 0 to 1 mg/L in treated water.

20. An oil-containing wastewater treatment apparatus which is a filtration apparatus comprising:

the separation membrane module for oil-containing wastewater treatment according to claim 1; and

cleaning means which sends a cleaning liquid composed of an alkaline aqueous solution to the surface of the hollow fiber membrane in order to remove water-insoluble oil adhering to the surface of the hollow fiber membrane of the separation membrane module.

21. The oil-containing wastewater treatment apparatus according to claim 20, wherein the apparatus includes an oil-containing wastewater storage tank, a cleaning liquid storage tank of the cleaning means, an inlet pipe through which each of the oil-containing wastewater storage tank and the cleaning liquid storage tank communicates with the inlet portion of the separation membrane module and which is inserted with a pump, and a circulation pipe through which each of the oil-containing wastewater storage tank and the cleaning liquid storage tank communicates with the discharge portion for untreated liquid of the separation membrane module;

and

branch pipes of the inlet pipe and branch pipes of the circulation pipe are configured to communicate with the oil-containing wastewater storage tank and the cleaning liquid storage tank.

22. The oil-containing wastewater treatment apparatus according to claim 21, wherein the discharge pressure of the pump inserted in the inlet pipe is 50 to 300 kPa, and a switching valve is inserted at the position from which the branch pipes diverge.