Scaling and fouling in membrane distillation for desalination applications: a review

DM Warsinger, J Swaminathan, E Guillen-Burrieza… - Desalination, 2015 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) has become an area of rapidly increasing research and
development since the 1990s, providing a potentially cost effective thermally-driven …

Review of thermal efficiency and heat recycling in membrane distillation processes

Y Zhang, Y Peng, S Ji, Z Li, P Chen - Desalination, 2015 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) is a promising desalination technology for water recovery from
high-salinity solutions such as RO brine. Despite its great potential, MD has not been …

Fouling in direct contact membrane distillation process

M Gryta - Journal of membrane science, 2008 - Elsevier
The formation of deposit on the membrane surface (fouling) is one of the major operating
problems of membrane distillation process. The influence of fouling on the performance of …

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 …

Ultra-high freshwater production in multistage solar membrane distillation via waste heat injection to condenser

P Poredoš, J Gao, H Shan, J Yu, Z Shao, Z Xu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Passive solar membrane distillation (MD) is an emerging technology to alleviate water
scarcity. Recently, its performance has been enhanced by multistage design, though the …

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) …

Superhydrophobic electrospun membrane for heavy metals removal by air gap membrane distillation (AGMD)

H Attia, S Alexander, CJ Wright, N Hilal - Desalination, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents a novel approach to fabricate superhydrophobic membranes by using
environmentally friendly and cost effective superhydrophobic nanoparticles to enhance …

Energy efficiency of permeate gap and novel conductive gap membrane distillation

J Swaminathan, HW Chung, DM Warsinger… - Journal of Membrane …, 2016 - Elsevier
This work presents numerical modeling results and flux experiments for a novel membrane
distillation configuration called conductive gap membrane distillation (CGMD), as well as …

Air-gap membrane distillation as a one-step process for textile wastewater treatment

S Leaper, A Abdel-Karim, TA Gad-Allah… - Chemical Engineering …, 2019 - Elsevier
Wastewater from textile dyeing plants contains a complex mixture of dyes, salts, surfactants
and other additives which make it challenging to treat and harmful to release directly into the …

Renewable energy-driven membrane distillation in the context of life cycle assessment

M Kaczmarczyk, M Mukti, N Ghaffour, S Soukane… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
Desalination and water treatment processes have seen a worldwide increase due to
increasingly limited access to drinking water sources. In this context, the article focuses on …