The limited clean water resource has urged the need to extract fresh water from non-
conventional sources. Produced water (PW) is a potential source of fresh water, particularly …

Fouling and wetting of membranes are significant concerns that can impede the widespread
application of the membrane distillation (MD) process during high-salinity wastewater …

Membrane distillation (MD) is a promising alternative thermal-based membrane process that
can achieve high-quality freshwater across various impaired water sources. However, the …

Membrane distillation (MD) has gained significant attention for treating hypersaline brine.
However, conventional MD is still constrained by technical issues such as temperature …

This paper presents an experimental approach to investigating scale formation in Vacuum
Membrane Distillation using in-situ optical crystal growth tracking and synchronized …

Excessive population growth has increased the importances of industrial wastewater
treatment as well as energy conservation. This paper presented an experimental study of a …

Membrane distillation (MD) is a promising technology for the treatment of highly saline
waters. However, there are few microporous hydrophobic membranes, available as hollow …

Large-scale CFD studies are currently lacking in membrane distillation due to high
computational overhead. This study utilizes a validated CFD model for vacuum membrane …

Distillation systems can achieve much higher energy efficiency by utilizing multiple effects to
internally recycle latent heat. Flat sheet membrane distillation systems (ie, the Memsys MDS …

Surface-heated membrane distillation (MD) enhances the energy efficiency of desalination
by mitigating temperature polarization (TP). However, systematic investigations of larger …