Membrane distillation (MD) is a hybrid thermal-membrane process driven by the vapor pressure difference between hot and cold sides of a hydrophobic membrane, resulting in the passage of water vapor through the membrane, followed by condensation on the cold side producing distilled quality wa-ter [1, 2].The different …
Membrane Distillation (MD) is a promising technology for separation and purification processes. It is a thermally-driven separation process, in which only vapour molecules are able to pass through a porous hydrophobic membrane. Unlike normal membrane processes which operate on temperature difference, MD separation is driven …
The treatment of produced waters (by-products of oil and gas extraction) with the innovative process of membrane distillation is challenging, because these highly saline streams contain high ...
Membranes (Basel). 2021 Dec; 11(12): 958. ... The membrane distillation tests were conducted using a high saline effluent, obtained as the concentrated discharge of an electrodialysis reversal (EDR) plant, which has been used to treat petrochemical wastewater. ... Nariyoshi Y.N. Ph.D. Thesis. University of São Paulo; São Paulo, Brazil: …
Driven Hollow Fiber Membrane Distillation Module . U.S. Department of the Interior . ... Denver, Colorado August 2021. REPORT DOCUMENTATION PAGE . Form Approved OMB No. 0704-0188 . The public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, …
Membrane distillation can use low-grade heat for salt water desalination, but the materials used can often suffer from limited permeance. ... Accepted: 10 June 2021. Published: 22 July 2021. Issue ...
Membrane distillation (MD) is a promising hybrid thermal-membrane separation technology that can efficiently produce freshwater from seawater or contaminated …
where M refers to membrane phase and D is the drug diffusivity inside the membrane. C is the drug concentration which is a function of r and z (coordinates). At …
Membrane distillation (MD) is a thermally-driven membrane-based separation technique, which has shown great potential of use for molecular separation in …
Membrane distillation (MD) has been proven promising in solar-driven desalination. Moreover, its unique characteristics such as simple process, module compactness, high salt rejection rate, etc. allow for a small-scale device in a distributed system. ... 2021 Jun 15:198:117154. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2021.117154. Epub 2021 Apr …
PhD#12 will study the membrane distillation (MD) advanced process monitoring & mathematical modelling using molecular probes that report their local environment by changing their fluorescence to local temperature or pH (reactive processes) applied to an alcoxycarbonylation reaction mixture in methanol.. At University NOVA Lisbon (Portugal, …
Photothermal Membrane Distillation toward Solar Water Production Small Methods. 2021 May;5(5):e2001200. doi: 10.1002/smtd.202001200. Epub 2021 Feb 15. Authors Minmin Gao 1, Connor Kangnuo Peh 1, Fan Lu Meng 1, Ghim Wei Ho 1 2 Affiliations 1 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering ...
Membrane distillation performance is intrinsically affected by the structure of the film in terms of thickness, porosity, mean pore size, pore distribution and geometry. Thus, the successful outcome of the process is reasonably expected to be depending upon the capability of the membrane to interface two media without dispersing one phase into ...
It also sets a strong framework for the optimization of the MD process by identifying process parameters and ideal membrane properties that lead to cost-and energy-efficient water desalination [36].
Membrane distillation (MD) is a membrane-based thermal desalination process capable of treating hypersaline brines. Standard MD systems rely on preheating the feed to drive the desalination process.
DOI: 10.1016/J.DESAL.2021.115187 Corpus ID: 237674181; Application of polypropylene membranes hydrophilized by plasma for water desalination by membrane distillation @article{Gryta2021ApplicationOP, title={Application of polypropylene membranes hydrophilized by plasma for water desalination by membrane distillation}, …
PhD in Membrane Technology & Separation. ... September 2018 - September 2021. City University of Hong Kong. Field of study. ... Vacuum membrane distillation (VMD) has been gaining attention as a ...
Fabrication and characterization of omniphobic membrane. PVDF membrane is one of the most commonly used membranes in MD process because of its inherent hydrophobicity, low thermal conductivity ...
The effect of talc addition on the morphology of capillary membranes formed by a thermally induced phase separation (TIPS) method enhanced the mechanical properties of blended membranes, and their lower thermal degradation was observed during 350 h of membrane distillation studies.
As PhD students, we found it difficult to access the research we needed, so we decided to create a new Open Access publisher that levels the playing field for scientists across the world. ... Membrane Distillation Process: Fundamentals, Applications, and Challenges ... Box–Behnken design assisted by theoretical mass and heat transfer using ...
Among them, membrane distillation (MD) has become one of the most attractive approaches due to its higher rejection rate than processes driven by pressure, …
Solar-assisted distillation is considered promising to solve the freshwater supply for off-grid communities. In this work, a passive and flexible multistage membrane distillation (F-MSMD) device is devised to produce freshwater via solar distillation with the latent heat of vapor condensation being recycled to enhance its energy efficiency. By …
Anwar, Nawrin (2021) Membrane Distillation for Water Recovery from Pretreated High-Strength Brewery Wastewater. PhD thesis, Concordia University. Preview. Text (application/pdf) ... Ph. D. Program: Civil Engineering: Date: 3 August 2021: Thesis Supervisor(s): Mulligan, Catherine and Rahaman, Saifur:
At present, around 25% of water desalination processes are based on distillation. Similar to classical distillation, membrane distillation is a phased-change process in which a hydrophobic membrane separates two phases. Membrane distillation is considered an emerging player in the desalination, food processing and water …
He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2002. Since 2004, he is faculty member (Professor) in Chemical Engineering and Petroleum Department, Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Research Center of Iran (CCERCI). His research is focused on separation processes with emphasis on …
A promising technology is membrane distillation (MD), which is still in the research and development stage for industrial applications. MD is a membrane-based …
3.1. Introduction3.1.1. Water problem. More than 75% of the earth's surface is covered by water. Saline water represents > 97% of it; on the other hand, only 2.5% is fresh water, which is utilized for different uses such as potable water, agriculture, and industry.The average global fresh water consumption is about 300 L/day per person, …
One of the problems that most afflicts humanity is the lack of clean water. Water stress, which is the pressure on the quantity and quality of water resources, exists in many places throughout the World. Desalination represents a valid solution to the scarcity of fresh water and several technologies are already well applied and successful (such as …
Environmental Engineering: Ph.D. Dissertation Topics 2021 Dissertation Titles • The Roles of Surface and Pore Properties in Wetting Resistance for Membrane Distillation Membranes, P.I: Amy Childress, Professor • Investigation of ambient PM physio-chemical and toxicological characteristics in different urban microenvironments using novel …
The incorporation of photothermal materials into a photothermal membrane distillation (PMD) solar evaporator design harmoniously resolves these issues through combination of renewable energy and efficient interfacial distillation, to achieve the ultimate goal of practical saline water into freshwater conversion. ... May 12, 2021. …
The emergence of nano innovations in membrane distillation (MD) has garnered increasing scientific interest. This enables the exploration of state-of-the-art nano-enabled MD membranes with desirable properties, which significantly improve the efficiency and reliability of the MD process and open up opportunities for achieving a …
The photothermal membrane thereby shows outstanding performance for direct contact SDMD with a distillation flux of 1.09 kg m −2 h −1 and a corresponding solar energy-to-collected water efficiency as high as 74.15% under one sun irradiation, and outperforms state-of-the-art direct contact SDMD photothermal membranes without pre-heating the ...
Membrane distillation (MD) has been garnering increasing attention in research and development, since it has been proposed as a promising technology for desalinating hypersaline brine from various …
2021/09: Prof. Tong and PhD student Yiming Yin attended the 30th the North American Membrane Society (NAMS) Meeting. ... Yiming presented his work "Contrast behaviors and mitigation strategies of gypsum and silica scaling in membrane distillation". 2021/09: Prof. Tong is co-authored in the National Alliance Water Innovation (NAWI) Agriculture ...