NEW PURIFICATION TECHNIQUE FOR THE REMOVAL OF ORGANICS FROM AQUEOUS-SOLUTIONS USING SILICONE POLYMERS

A new technique for water purification has been developed to remove or ganic contaminants in an aqueous solution using silicone polymers in t he form of hollow fiber membranes. The method is simple to use and has a low setup cost, high capacity, and efficiency. A number of paramete rs such as solute concentration, wall-thickness of tubing, tube length , diameter, effect of flow rate, capacity of the tubing, tubing type, and effect of temperature and pressure have all been investigated. A s imple mathematical treatment of the data is presented with good agreem ent between experimental and theoretical data for the derived equation .