Degradation of pharmaceuticals using the hybrid ozonation-filtration system

The hybrid ozonation-membrane filtration unit allows the simultaneous treatment of the contaminated water with ozone and micro- and nano-filtration (MF/NF) under controlled conditions using commercial single tubular ceramic membranes with an inside-out operation. In total, four commercial ceramic (CM) membranes with different compositions and pore sizes were selected. The composition of the selected membranes is given below

• TiO₂/ZrO₂ composition of three different pore sizes: 50-, 150-, and 300 kDa MWCO) and
• TiO₂/ TiO₂+ZrO₂ composition of one pore size (0.200 μm MWCO).

The files contain information on the degradation of the pharmaceuticals using the different membranes under the three surface modifications; CeO2, CeTiOx and CeO2+CeTiOx.

Permeability tests have been performed on all four membranes. The filtration unit can operate from 0.3 -1.5 bar pressure with a permeability flow ranging from 200 - 1900 L.m^-2.h^-1 at 1 bar, starting from the lowest molecular weight cut-off (MWCO) membrane (50 kDa) and moving to the higher (0,200 μm) one.