Membrane distillation

By Zhongwei Ding, Zhigang Lei, Chengna Dai, Biaohua Chen. Special Distillation Processes, 2022

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Studies in the field of membrane distillation are analysed. A critical analysis of the theoretical and experimental investigations of membrane distillation is presented. Attention is concentrated on the mechanism of mass transfer and the influence of various external factors on the process characteristics. Questions concerning the creation of modules and apparatus for membrane distillation and aspects of the practical employment of such distillation in order to obtain pure water, for the purification of waste water, and for the concentration of technological solutions in various branches of industry are considered quite fully. The advantages and disadvantages of membrane distillation compared with other membrane methods are analysed. The bibliography includes 97 references.

Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Water Science and Technology

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Citations in the corpus

• Effect of operating parameters and membrane characteristics on air gap membrane distillation performance for the treatment of highly saline water (2016, background): “At constant temperature, water activity of salt solution decreases with the increase of salt concentration [5, 69-71]; it is known according to Eq.”
• Identification of material and physical features of membrane distillation membranes for high performance desalination (2010, background): “Assuming no heat loss through module walls, the total heat flux can be expressed as [15, 16]:”
• Commercial PTFE membranes for membrane distillation application: Effect of microstructure and support material (2012, background): “In most MD studies where salt solutions are used as feeds, γw correlation can be determined as a function of salt mole fraction, xNaCl [20]:”
• Heat and Mass Transport in Modeling Membrane Distillation Configurations: A Review (2018, background): “In all MD Models, transport of adsorbed molecules on membrane surfaces has been neglected under assumption that diffusion area of membrane matrix is small compared to membrane pore area (Lawson and Lloyd, 1997; Khayet and Matsuura, 2003; Koo et al., 2013; Prince et al., 2015; Ashoor et al., 2016).”