Spiral-wound filter module exhibiting almost no heavy metal leaching and manufacturing method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12337283-B2
Application number	US-202117232008-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 15, 2021
Priority date	Apr 17, 2020
Publication date	Jun 24, 2025
Grant date	Jun 24, 2025

Abstract

The present invention relates to a spiral-wound filter module exhibiting almost no heavy metal leaching and a manufacturing method thereof, and specifically, to a spiral-wound filter module, which can be used as a filter for producing safe drinking water by substantially reducing the amount of a heavy metal leached when immersed in water, and a manufacturing method thereof.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A spiral-wound filter module comprising:
a filtered-water flow channel sheet including a fabric exhibiting almost no heavy metal leaching;
a separation membrane sheet; and
an influent-water flow channel sheet,
wherein the fabric exhibiting almost no heavy metal leaching is a tricot knitted fabric formed by knitting sheath-core polyester fibers including antimony (Sb) in an amount of 1 ppb or less,
wherein each of a core-part polyester resin and a sheath-part polyester resin constituting the sheath-core polyester fibers is a resin that is polymerized by using a polymerization catalyst including only a titanium (Ti)-based catalyst,
wherein the fabric exhibiting almost no heavy metal leaching allows a heavy metal having an atomic weight of 63 g/mol to 200 g/mol and a density of 4 g/cm 3 or more to be leached in a leaching amount of 1 ppb or less,
wherein the leaching amount is obtained by a specimen prepared by cutting the fabric exhibiting almost no heavy metal leaching so as to have a weight of 0.7 g is immersed in 1,000 g of deionized water (DI water) having a purity of 99.9% or more for 100 hours and then taken out, and a concentration of a metal element leached into the deionized water is measured,
wherein the sheath-part polyester resin has a melting point in the range of 150° C. to 180° C.,
wherein the core-part polyester resin and the sheath-part polyester resin are prepared by performing an esterification and a condensation polymerization of a mixture containing an acid component, a diol component, and the titanium-based catalyst,
wherein the acid component of the core-part polyester resin and the sheath-part polyester resin includes one or more selected from among terephthalic acid (TPA) and isophthalic acid,
wherein the diol component of the core-part polyester resin includes 1,4-butandiol,
wherein the sheath-core polyester fibers of the tricot knitted fabric are heat treated at 170 to 250° C. for 30 seconds to 3 minutes.

2. The spiral-wound filter module of claim 1 , wherein a melting point of the core-part polyester resin is higher than a melting point of a sheath-part polyester resin.

3. The spiral-wound filter module of claim 2 , wherein the fabric exhibiting almost no heavy metal leaching is formed by fusing at least a portion of the polyester fiber in the sheath part.

4. The spiral-wound filter module of claim 1 , wherein the spiral-wound filter module is in a form in which a laminate formed by sequentially laminating a first separation membrane sheet, the filtered-water flow channel sheet, a second separation membrane sheet, and the influent-water flow channel sheet one or more times is spirally wound,
wherein each of the first separation membrane sheet and the second separation membrane sheet is the said separation membrane sheet.

Assignees

• Toray Advanced Mat Korea Inc

Inventors

• Cho Sung Gun
• Hong Sung Pyo

Classifications

• B01D69/106

  Membranes in the pores of a support, e.g. polymerized in the pores or voids · CPC title

• B01D69/1216

  Three or more layers · CPC title

• B01D69/1213

  Laminated layers · CPC title

• D01F8/14

  with at least one polyester as constituent · CPC title

• C02F1/44 Primary

  by dialysis, osmosis or reverse osmosis {(general membrane separation processes B01D61/00, membrane modules B01D63/00, electrodialysis C02F1/4693, combination of membrane modules and bioreactors C02F3/1268)} · CPC title