Recently, hydrogels have been widely applied as draw agents in forward osmosis (FO) desalination. This work aims to synthesize bioartificial hydrogel from a blend of sodium alginate (SA) and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) using epichlorohydrin (ECH) as a crosslinker. Then this prepared hydrogel was applied as a draw agent with cellulose triacetate membrane in a batch (FO) cell. The effects of the PVA content in the polymer blend and the crosslinker dose on the hydrogel's swelling capacity were investigated to optimize the hydrogel's composition. Furthermore, the water flux and the reverse solute flux of the optimum SA/PVA hydrogel were evaluated in a batch (FO) unit under the effect of the hydrogel's particle size, feed solution (FS) temperature, FS concentration, and membrane orientation. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and compression strength tests were used to characterize the prepared hydrogel. Results revealed that the equilibrium swelling ratio (%) of 5228 was achieved with a hydrogel that had 25% PVA and a crosslinking ratio of 0.8. FO experiments revealed that the maximum water flux of 0.845 LMH achieved, when distilled water was used as FS, average hydrogel's particle size was 60 µm, and the FS temperature was 40 °C.
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