Membrane distillation: Perspectives for sustainable and improved desalination

D González, J Amigo, F Suárez - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) is a promising separation technology that can help reducing the
worldwide water-energy stress in a sustainable way. MD uses low-grade thermal energy to …

Engineering aspects of the design, construction and performance of modular redox flow batteries for energy storage

LF Arenas, CP De León, FC Walsh - Journal of Energy Storage, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Despite many studies and several extensive reviews of redox flow batteries (RFBs) over the
last three decades, information on engineering aspects is scarce, which hinders progress …

How RO membrane permeability and other performance factors affect process cost and energy use: A review

Y Okamoto, JH Lienhard - Desalination, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Reverse osmosis (RO) technology has progressed steadily over the last few decades. Those
gains were achieved through improvements in both RO membrane element performance …

Roles and performance enhancement of feed spacer in spiral wound membrane modules for water treatment: A 20-year review on research evolvement

W Lin, Y Zhang, D Li, X Wang, X Huang - Water research, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Membrane technologies have been widely applied in water treatment, wastewater
reclamation and seawater desalination. Feed spacer present in spiral wound membrane …

Review of 3D CFD modeling of flow and mass transfer in narrow spacer-filled channels in membrane modules

GA Fimbres-Weihs, DE Wiley - Chemical Engineering and Processing …, 2010‏ - Elsevier
The robustness, reliability and efficiency of modern numerical methods for obtaining
solutions to flow problems have given rise to the adoption of Computational Fluid Dynamics …

The evolution of feed spacer role in membrane applications for desalination and water treatment: A critical review and future perspective

N Sreedhar, N Thomas, N Ghaffour, HA Arafat - Desalination, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The membrane research community has witnessed a significant research growth on feed
spacers since 2010, both in quantity and scope. Increasingly novel spacer geometries and …

A review of efforts to reduce membrane fouling by control of feed spacer characteristics

HS Abid, DJ Johnson, R Hashaikeh, N Hilal - Desalination, 2017‏ - Elsevier
A major problem for the operation of membrane based water treatment systems is fouling of
the membrane surface. Within industrial modules, such as spiral wound modules, feed …

Estimation of the structure dependent performance of 3-D rapid prototyped membranes

T Femmer, AJC Kuehne, M Wessling - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Novel rapid prototy** techniques expedite the fabrication of shapes and geometries,
which have been inaccessible to date using common machining methods. The attained …

[HTML][HTML] Optimal design of spacers in reverse osmosis

AH Haidari, SGJ Heijman… - Separation and purification …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Spiral-wound membrane (SWM) modules are the most common membrane configuration
utilized in reverse osmosis (RO) and nanofiltration. The enhancement of SWM module …

The effect of feed spacer geometry on membrane performance and concentration polarisation based on 3D CFD simulations

B Gu, CS Adjiman, XY Xu - Journal of Membrane Science, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Feed spacers are used in spiral wound reverse osmosis (RO) membrane modules to keep
the membrane sheets apart as well as to enhance mixing. They are beneficial to membrane …