Indian Journal of NanoScience https://www.i-scholar.in/index.php/ijns <div id="homecontent">Indian Journal of NanoScience is the leading open-access journal, providing a platform for publishing innovative and research articles. As an open access journal, articles in Indian Journal of NanoScience will always be freely available online and readily accessible.</div><div id="i-scholarabout">Indian Journal of NanoScience is the leading open-access journal, providing a platform for publishing innovative and research articles. As an open access journal, articles in Indian Journal of NanoScience will always be freely available online and readily accessible.</div> Indian Society for Education and Environment (ISEE) en-US Indian Journal of NanoScience 2320-9674 Preparing New Ceramic Membranes from Raw Syrian Sand https://www.i-scholar.in/index.php/ijns/article/view/166914 <p><strong>Background/Objectives</strong>: In this paper, ceramic membranes were prepared from Syrian sand. Preparation process included several stages.<br /><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Methods/Statistical Analysis:</strong> First stage was the purification of sand by acidic way using hydrochloric acid extended by (1:1) to remove most of impurities; then sorted according to the granular size and prepared ceramic membranes by mixing the sand with different portions of liquid sodium silicates as a binder. Then studied the effect of ratio of binder, pressure formation, treatment temperature, and sand grains size on some properties of the prepared membranes.<br /><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Findings</strong>: Effectiveness of the prepared membranes was tested in treatment of laundries water. The treatment was performed by settling and then filtration through prepared membranes. The high effectiveness of the prepared membranes has emerged through decrease of Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) by 72.89%, Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) by 82.64%, and Turbidity by 99.30%, and Color by 98.90%, and Suspended Solids (SS) by 99.35%.<br /><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Improvements/Applications</strong>: The prepared ceramic membranes were of low cost, long life, and good efficiency.</p> Abdulrazzaq Hammal 2018-01-01 2018-01-01 6