[HTML][HTML] State-of-the-art of renewable energy sources used in water desalination: Present and future prospects

J Bundschuh, M Kaczmarczyk, N Ghaffour… - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
The last decade has seen a worldwide increase in the use of alternative energy sources,
especially renewable energy (RE), including its application in desalination. In the past many …

Principles and applications of direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD): A comprehensive review

BB Ashoor, S Mansour, A Giwa, V Dufour, SW Hasan - Desalination, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper, the current and most recent applications of direct contact membrane distillation
(DCMD) are discussed. Apart from its rapidly increasing use for the desalination of highly …

Membrane distillation hybrids for water production and energy efficiency enhancement: A critical review

N Ghaffour, S Soukane, JG Lee, Y Kim, A Alpatova - Applied Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
With an ever-increasing demand in energy, constrained by strict environmental regulations,
process development faces stringent design requirements further limited by intrinsic …

Heat and mass transport in modeling membrane distillation configurations: a review

SO Olatunji, LM Camacho - Frontiers in Energy Research, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Identification and mitigation of challenges associated with membrane distillation (MD)
modeling are very crucial to the applicability of MD technology in the industry. Several …

Thermal modeling of fluid flow and heat transfer in direct contact membrane distillation

KS Chauhan, H Tyagi - Energy Conversion and Management, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, a mathematical model was developed, and numerical simulations were
conducted to analyze the direct contact membrane distillation process (DCMD) utilizing solar …

Analysis of temperature and concentration polarizations for performance improvement in direct contact membrane distillation

Z Kuang, R Long, Z Liu, W Liu - International journal of heat and mass …, 2019 - Elsevier
Regarding numerical simulation of the direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) based
on computational fluid dynamics, the variation of mass flowrate and concentration along the …

MXene-coated membranes for autonomous solar-driven desalination

M Mustakeem, JK El-Demellawi, M Obaid… - … applied materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Clean water supply in off-grid locations remains a stumbling stone for socio-economic
development in remote areas where solar energy is abundant. In this regard, several …

Electrohydrodynamic atomization of CNT on PTFE membrane for scaling resistant membranes in membrane distillation

L Francis, N Hilal - npj Clean Water, 2023 - nature.com
In this study, an electrohydrodynamic atomization or electrospraying technique is used for
the uniform deposition of carbon nanotubes (CNT) on a commercially available PTFE …

Review of transport phenomena and popular modelling approaches in membrane distillation

Y Dong, X Dai, L Zhao, L Gao, Z **e, J Zhang - Membranes, 2021 - mdpi.com
In this paper, the transport phenomena in four common membrane distillation (MD)
configurations and three popular modelling approaches are introduced. The mechanism of …

Cost analysis of multiple effect evaporation and membrane distillation hybrid desalination system

E Ali, J Orfi, H AlAnsary, S Soukane, H Elcik… - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
This work addresses the feasibility of a previously proposed hybrid desalination system
comprising multiple effect evaporation (MEE) and membrane distillation (MD) processes …