Photothermal photocatalytic membrane for seawater desalination and uranium extraction and preparation method therefor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11951445-B2
Application number	US-202318195735-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 10, 2023
Priority date	May 31, 2022
Publication date	Apr 9, 2024
Grant date	Apr 9, 2024

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to the field of materials for uranium extraction from seawater (UES), and in particular, to a photothermal photocatalytic membrane for seawater desalination and uranium extraction and a preparation method therefor. The present disclosure provides a photothermal photocatalytic membrane for seawater desalination and uranium extraction and a preparation method therefor. The preparation method includes: fixing a treated carbon cloth to a glass plate, pouring a casting solution 1 onto the carbon cloth to form a first layer of film, forming a second layer of film using a casting solution 2, and putting the second layer of film into a first coagulation bath and a second coagulation bath in sequence to form the photothermal photocatalytic membrane. The photothermal photocatalytic membrane is supported by the carbon cloth, and a surface of the photothermal photocatalytic membrane is of a micro-nano structure.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A preparation method for a photothermal photocatalytic membrane for seawater desalination and uranium extraction, comprising the following steps:
step 1: conducting carbon cloth pretreatment: pretreating a carbon cloth of 10 cm×8 cm, by placing the carbon cloth in anhydrous ethanol for ultrasonic treatment for 0.5 h, then in acetone for ultrasonic treatment for 0.5 h, and then in deionized water for ultrasonic treatment for 0.5 h, thereby cleaning the carbon cloth to make the carbon cloth more conductive and hydrophilic, and then drying the carbon cloth after the ultrasonic treatments to obtain a carbon cloth A;
step 2: bonding a conductive tape to a surface of the carbon cloth A, tearing off the conductive tape, repeating for 3 times to remove floating hair on the surface of the carbon cloth A and burr the surface of the carbon cloth A to form burrs, and treating the burrs so that the surface of the carbon cloth A is covered with burrs having a length of 10-150 μm, so as to obtain a carbon cloth B;
step 3: preparing casting solutions, wherein a proportion of a casting solution 1 by total weight is as follows: 8-15% of polyacrylonitrile having a molecular weight of 80,000-300,000, 1-5% of nano titanium dioxide having a particle size of 10-300 nm, 0.5-5% of macromolecular additive, 5-20% of small molecular additive, 0.5-2% of inorganic salt additive, 0.1-2% of non-solvent, and 51-84.9% of solvent, and a proportion of a casting solution 2 by total weight is as follows: 6-10% of polyacrylonitrile having a molecular weight of 80,000-300,000, 5-10% of nano titanium dioxide having a particle size of 10-300 nm, 2-5% of macromolecular additive, 5-20% of small molecular additive, 0.5-2% of inorganic salt additive, 0.1-2% of non-solvent, and 51-81.4% of solvent; weighing 100 g of the solvent, adding the nano titanium dioxide having a particle size of 10-300 nm into the solvent, conducting ultrasonic treatment for 24 h to obtain a mixture system, adding the remaining components to the mixture system to obtain a casting solution (i.e., the casting solution 1 or the casting solution 2), stirring the casting solution for dissolution at 80° C. for 12 h, and putting the casting solution in a vacuum drying oven with a negative pressure of 0.08 MPa and a temperature of 60° C. for standing and defoaming for 0.25-2 h to obtain a defoamed casting solution, i.e., a defoamed casting solution 1 or a defoamed casting solution 2; and
step 4: putting the carbon cloth B obtained in step 2 with a burred side facing upwards, bonding four sides of the carbon cloth B to a glass plate with a tape, adjusting a film scraping thickness of a film scraper to 50-100 μm, pouring the defoamed casting solution 1 onto the carbon cloth B, and controlling the film scraper to conduct film scraping to form a first layer of film on the carbon cloth B; after 0-60 s, pouring the defoamed casting solution 2 onto an upper end of the first layer of film, controlling the film scraper to conduct film scraping to form a second layer of film on the first layer of film, wherein the carbon cloth B, the first layer of film, and the second layer of film form an integrity; letting the integrity stay in air for 0-120 s, slowly putting the integrity into a first coagulation bath at 20-40° C. for 1-8 h, taking out, and then putting the integrity into a second coagulation bath at 20-30° C. for 8-24 h to obtain the photothermal photocatalytic membrane for seawater desalination and uranium extraction,
wherein the macromolecular additive is one or a mixture of two or more selected from the group consisting of PVP K90, PVP K60, PVP K30, PVP K17, Dow PEO, and hyperbranched polymer, the small molecular additive is one or a mixture of two or more selected from the group consisting of PEG 400, PEG 600, PEG 1000, PEG 6000, Tween 20, Tween 60, Tween 80, Span 20, Span 60, Span 80, sodium dodecyl sulfate, sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate, and sodium dodecyl sulfonate.

2. The preparation method for a photothermal photocatalytic membrane for seawater desalination and uranium extraction according to claim 1 , wherein both the first coagulation bath and the second coagulation bath are composed of pure water, the first coagulation bath is conducted at 30° C., and the second coagulation bath is conducted at 25° C.

3. The preparation method for a photothermal photocatalytic membrane for seawater desalination and uranium extraction according to claim 2 , wherein in step 3, in the casting solution 1, a percentage of a weight of the polyacrylonitrile having a molecular weight of 80,000-300,000 in the total weight is 12%, and the nano titanium dioxide has a particle size of 10-100 nm, and in the casting solution 2, a percentage of a weight of the polyacrylonitrile having a molecular weight of 80,000-300,000 in the total weight is 8%, and the nano titanium dioxide has a particle size of 10-100 nm.

4. A photothermal photocatalytic membrane for seawater desalination and uranium extraction, wherein the membrane is a membrane prepared by the preparation method for a photothermal photocatalytic membrane for seawater desalination and uranium extraction according to claim 1 , and the membrane comprises the carbon cloth B as a support, the polyacrylonitrile as a skeleton, and the nano titanium dioxide as a filler.

5. The photothermal photocatalytic membrane for seawater desalination and uranium extraction according to claim 4 , wherein the membrane has a structure of a skin layer and a finger-like porous supporting layer.

6. The photothermal photocatalytic membrane for seawater desalination and uranium extraction according to claim 4 , wherein the membrane has a structure of a skin layer and a sponge-like porous supporting layer, and is prepared by a phase conversion method with the polyacrylonitrile having a molecular weight of 80,000 as the skeleton and the nano titanium dioxide having a particle size of 10-300 nm as the filler.

7. The photothermal photocatalytic membrane for seawater desalination and uranium extraction according to claim 4 , wherein the membrane is prepared by a phase conversion method with the polyacrylonitrile having a molecular weight of 150,000 as the skeleton and the nano titanium dioxide having a particle size of 10-300 nm as the filler, and both a skin layer and a supporting layer of the membrane are of a sponge-like porous structure.

8. The photothermal photocatalytic membrane for seawater desalination and uranium extraction according to claim 4 , wherein both the first coagulation bath and the second coagulation bath are composed of pure water, the first coagulation bath is conducted at 30° C., and the second coagulation bath is conducted at 25° C.

9. The photothermal photocatalytic membrane for seawater desalination and uranium extraction according to claim 4 , wherein in step 3, both the first coagulation bath and the second coagulation bath are composed of pure water, the first coagulation bath is conducted at 30° C., and the second coagulation bath is conducted at 25° C., and
in the casting solution 1, a percentage of a weight of the polyacrylonitrile having a molecular weight of 80,000-300,000 in the total weight is 12%, and the nano titanium dioxide has a particle size of 10-100 nm, and in the casting solution 2, a percentage of a weight of the polyacrylonitrile having a molecular weight of 80,000-300,000 in the total weight is 8%, and the nano titanium dioxide has a particle size of 10-100 nm.

Assignees

• Univ Harbin Eng

Inventors

• Wang Jun
• Zhang Bingtao
• Zhang Hongsen
• Liu Qi
• Zhu Jiahui
• Liu Jingyuan
• Yu Jing
• Chen Rongrong
• Wang Lele

Classifications

• B01D69/145 Primary

  containing embedded catalysts · CPC title

• B01D67/00113

  Pretreatment of the casting solutions, e.g. thermal treatment or ageing · CPC title

• B01D67/0013

  Casting processes · CPC title

• B01D67/0016

  Coagulation · CPC title

• B01D67/00793

  Dispersing a component, e.g. as particles or powder, in another component · CPC title