Coagulation/co-catalytic membrane integrated system for fouling-resistant and efficient water purification.

• Coagulation/co-catalytic membrane system integrated coagulation, filtration and AOP. • Fe3+ served as both the coagulant for DOM removal and PMS activator. • MoS 2 in catalytic membrane accelerate the redox cycling of Fe species. • Surface-bound radicals enable efficient BPA removal and in-situ membrane cleaning. • The system showed stable performance during 53 h treatment of WWTP effluent. Low-pressure catalytic membranes allow efficient rejection of particulates and simultaneously removing organics pollutant in water, but the accumulation of dissolved organic matters (DOM) on membrane surface, which cover the catalytic sites and cause membrane fouling, challenges their stable operation in practical wastewater treatment. Here we propose a ferric salt-based coagulation/co-catalytic membrane integrated system that can effectively mitigate the detrimental effects of DOM. Ferric salt (Fe3+) serving both as a DOM coagulant to lower the membrane fouling and as a co-catalyst with the membrane-embedded MoS 2 nanosheets to drive perxymonosulfate (PMS) activation and pollutant degradation. The membrane functionalized with 2H-phased MoS 2 nanosheets showed improved hydrophilicity and fouling resistance relative to the blank polysulfone membrane. Attributed to the DOM coagulation and co-catalytic generation of surface-bound radicals for decontamination at membrane surface, the catalytic membrane/PMS/ Fe3+ system showed much less membrane fouling and 2.6 times higher pollutant degradation rate in wastewater treatment than the catalytic membrane alone. Our work imply a great potential of coagulation/co-catalytic membrane integrated system for water purification application. [Display omitted] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]