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 …

Recent advances in membrane distillation processes: Membrane development, configuration design and application exploring

P Wang, TS Chung - Journal of membrane science, 2015 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) is a separation process based on the vapor transport across the
hydrophobic microporous membrane driven by the vapor pressure gradient across the …

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 …

Electrospun membranes for membrane distillation: The state of play and recent advances

L Francis, FE Ahmed, N Hilal - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
Electrospinning is a versatile technique for the fabrication of nanofibrous, nanostructured
composite membranes for a large number of applications. This mini-review focuses on …

Energy efficiency of membrane distillation up to high salinity: Evaluating critical system size and optimal membrane thickness

J Swaminathan, HW Chung, DM Warsinger - Applied Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
This study presents a comprehensive analytical framework to design efficient single-stage
membrane distillation (MD) systems for the desalination of feed streams up to high salinity …

Effect of operating parameters and membrane characteristics on air gap membrane distillation performance for the treatment of highly saline water

J Xu, YB Singh, GL Amy, N Ghaffour - Journal of Membrane Science, 2016 - Elsevier
In this study, ten different commercially available PTFE, PP and PVDF membranes were
tested in desalination of highly saline water by air gap membrane distillation (AGMD) …

Produced water treatment: application of air gap membrane distillation

A Alkhudhiri, N Darwish, N Hilal - Desalination, 2013 - Elsevier
Air Gap Membrane Distillation (AGMD) has been implemented to treat produced water. The
permeate fluxes, rejection factor and energy consumption for three different membranes …

Superoleophobic surface modification for robust membrane distillation performance

NGP Chew, S Zhao, C Malde, R Wang - Journal of Membrane Science, 2017 - Elsevier
Inspired by mussels' byssus with remarkable adhesive power that is neither degraded nor
deformed in the marine environment, dopamine coating has emerged as an option for …

Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) opportunities applied to the membrane distillation process: State-of-the-art and perspectives

MMA Shirazi, A Kargari, AF Ismail, T Matsuura - Desalination, 2016 - Elsevier
The robustness and efficiency of the numerical methods for obtaining solutions to MD
membranes and module problems (eg temperature and concentration polarizations and …

Membrane distillation—Principles, applications, configurations, design, and implementation

A Alkhudhiri, N Hilal - Emerging technologies for sustainable desalination …, 2018 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) is a promising technology for treating saline water and
wastewater with high rejection factors, which cannot be accomplished by conventional …