Potential of membrane distillation in seawater desalination: Thermal efficiency, sensitivity study and cost estimation

By Sulaiman Al-Obaidani, E. Curcio, F. Macedonio, G. D. Profio, H. Al‐Hinai, Enrico Drioli. 2008

841 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Water Science and Technology

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In Biomedical Engineering

1. Angelo Basile
2. Fausto Gallucci
3. C. Chiam
4. R. Sarbatly

In Electrical and Electronic Engineering

1. Angelo Basile
2. C. Cheng
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Citations in the corpus

• Identification of material and physical features of membrane distillation membranes for high performance desalination (2010, background): “Specific membranes for MD have been fabricated [11], however, these materials are not commercially available as yet [12].”
• Economic analysis of desalination technologies in the context of carbon pricing, and opportunities for membrane distillation (2013, background): “0015 [3, 36, 37] Maintenance cost (%) 2 2 2 [32, 34, 38] Pre-treatment cost ($/m 3 ) 0.”
• Current Trends and Future Developments on (Bio-) Membranes (2020, background): “In general, it is established that if waste heat is available, then membrane distillation can be suitable, but also other scenarios can be profitable (Al-Obaidani et al., 2008; Kesieme et al., 2013).”