Novel membrane and device for vacuum membrane distillation-based desalination process

By Baoan Li, K. Sirkar. 2005

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Performance improvement of PVDF hollow fiber-based membrane distillation process (2011, unknown): “To improve the applicability of these membranes for the MD processes, there are two approaches to minimize wetting; one is a finely porous hydrophobic coating which helps to minimize the pores size while maintaining suitable porosity [9-11]; the other is to apply a dense hydrophilic coating which ca”
CF4 plasma-modified superhydrophobic PVDF membranes for direct contact membrane distillation (2014, methodology): “Hydrophobization is a key step for the preparation of MD membranes including direct phase separation [8–14] and surface treatment using perfluorodecyltriethoxysilane [15], TiO2 nanoparticles deposition [16], hydrophilic sodium alginate hydrogel [17], plasma polymerization of fluoropolymer [18–20] an”
Effect of operating parameters and membrane characteristics on air gap membrane distillation performance for the treatment of highly saline water (2016, background): “Interest in AGMD, VMD and SGMD has been increasing in recent years [20-40].”
Evaluation of geothermal energy in desalination by vacuum membrane distillation (2013, methodology): “pore size, porosity, thickness and pore length relies on the membrane formulations and fabrication techniques [3–6].”