Pore wetting in membrane distillation: A comprehensive review

H Chamani, J Woloszyn, T Matsuura, D Rana… - Progress in Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) is an emerging technology for the desalination of brines. In some
cases, liquid penetrates into the pores of the membrane, causing pore wetting. MD's …

Harnessing solar‐driven photothermal effect toward the water–energy nexus

C Zhang, HQ Liang, ZK Xu, Z Wang - Advanced Science, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Producing affordable freshwater has been considered as a great societal challenge, and
most conventional desalination technologies are usually accompanied with large energy …

Membrane distillation: Recent developments and perspectives

E Drioli, A Ali, F Macedonio - Desalination, 2015 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) has gained significant regard from industrial and academic
perspective in recent years, thus the frequency of publications related to the field has greatly …

Membrane synthesis for membrane distillation: A review

L Eykens, K De Sitter, C Dotremont, L Pinoy… - Separation and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) is an emerging thermal separation technique, using a
hydrophobic microporous membrane. Initially, the process used MF membranes with a …

Fouling and its control in membrane distillation—A review

LD Ti**g, YC Woo, JS Choi, S Lee, SH Kim… - Journal of Membrane …, 2015 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) is an emerging thermally-driven technology that poses a lot of
promise in desalination, and water and wastewater treatment. Developments in membrane …

Membrane distillation: A comprehensive review

A Alkhudhiri, N Darwish, N Hilal - Desalination, 2012 - Elsevier
Membrane Distillation (MD) is a thermally-driven separation process, in which only vapour
molecules transfer through a microporous hydrophobic membrane. The driving force in the …

Slippery for scaling resistance in membrane distillation: A novel porous micropillared superhydrophobic surface

Z **ao, R Zheng, Y Liu, H He, X Yuan, Y Ji, D Li, H Yin… - Water research, 2019 - Elsevier
Scaling in membrane distillation (MD) is a key issue in desalination of concentrated saline
water, where the interface property between the membrane and the feed become critical. In …

Advances in membrane distillation for water desalination and purification applications

LM Camacho, L Dumée, J Zhang, J Li, M Duke… - Water, 2013 - mdpi.com
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 …

Delignified wood from understanding the hierarchically aligned cellulosic structures to creating novel functional materials: a review

A Kumar, T Jyske, M Petrič - Advanced Sustainable Systems, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Utilization of hierarchically aligned natural cellulosic structures has become a leading
natural template scaffold for a diverse range of functional applications. This natural scaffold …

Membranes and theoretical modeling of membrane distillation: A review

M Khayet - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2011 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) is one of the non-isothermal membrane separation processes
used in various applications such desalination, environmental/waste cleanup, food, etc. It is …