Advances in membrane distillation for water desalination and purification applications

Lucy Mar Camacho; Ludovic Dumée; Jianhua Zhang; Jun de Li; Mikel Duke; Juan Gomez; Stephen Gray

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Advances in membrane distillation for water desalination and purification applications

Lucy Mar Camacho, Ludovic Dumée, Jianhua Zhang, Jun de Li, Mikel Duke, Juan Gomez, Stephen Gray

Chemical and Petroleum Engineering

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Abstract

Membrane distillation is a process that utilizes differences in vapor pressure to permeate water through a macro-porous membrane and reject other non-volatile constituents present in the influent water. This review considers the fundamental heat and mass transfer processes in membrane distillation, recent advances in membrane technology, module configurations, and the applications and economics of membrane distillation, and identifies areas that may lead to technological improvements in membrane distillation as well as the application characteristics required for commercial deployment.

Original language	British English
Pages (from-to)	94-196
Number of pages	103
Journal	Water (Switzerland)
Volume	5
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/w5010094
State	Published - 2013

Keywords

Heat transfer
Mass transfer
Membrane distillation
Module configurations
Water desalination and purification

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