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 …

Water and wastewater treatment systems by novel integrated membrane distillation (MD)

P Biniaz, N Torabi Ardekani, MA Makarem… - ChemEngineering, 2019 - mdpi.com
The scarcity of freshwater has been recognized as one of the main challenges people must
overcome in the 21st century. The adoption of an environmentally friendly, cost-effective …

Hydrophobic ceramic membranes for water desalination

J Kujawa, S Cerneaux, W Kujawski, K Knozowska - Applied Sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
Hydrophilic ceramic membranes (tubular and planar) made of TiO2 and Al2O3 were
efficiently modified with non-fluorinated hydrophobic grafting molecules. As a result of …

The performance of polyvinylidene fluoride-polytetrafluoroethylene nanocomposite distillation membranes: An experimental and numerical study

Z Li, D Rana, T Matsuura, CQ Lan - Separation and Purification Technology, 2019 - Elsevier
Supported flat sheet polyvinylidene fluoride-polytetrafluoroethylene (PVDF-PTFE)
nanocomposite membranes were fabricated for this study using the phase inversion …

An experimental and theoretical study on separations by vacuum membrane distillation employing hollow-fiber modules

A Karanasiou, M Kostoglou, A Karabelas - Water, 2018 - mdpi.com
Vacuum membrane distillation (VMD) is an attractive variant of the novel membrane
distillation process, which is promising for various separations, including water desalination …

Draw solution recovery using direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) from osmotic membrane bioreactor (Os-MBR)

MA Shahzad, SJ Khan, MS Siddique - Journal of Water Process …, 2019 - Elsevier
This study investigates the application of direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) for
concentrating diluted draw solution (DS) from osmotic membrane bioreactor (Os-MBR). A flat …

Removal of polyvinylamine sulfonate anthrapyridone dye by application of heterogeneous electro-Fenton process

B Bouzayani, J Meijide, M Pazos, SC Elaoud… - … Science and Pollution …, 2017 - Springer
Diversity and rapidly multiplication of the pollutants incite as to improve the conventional
treatments wastewater methods. One of the bottlenecks often faced is the presence into …

[PDF][PDF] Membrane distillation

MMA Shirazi, CA Quist-Jensen… - Experimental Methods for …, 2024 - researchgate.net
Membrane distillation (MD) is a non-isothermal membrane process (Lawson and Lloyd,
1997a). In MD, a hydrophobic membrane with porous structure separates the feed and …

Enhancing performance of the membrane distillation process using air injection zigzag system for water desalination

AA Alanezi, YA Alanezi, R Alazmi, A Altaee… - Desalination and water …, 2020 - Elsevier
ABSTRACT A novel design of an air injection zigzag system was developed to enhance the
tubular membrane distillation module's performance for desalination of water, unlike the …

Removal of high concentration Congo red by hydrophobic PVDF hollow fiber composite membrane coated with a loose and porous ZIF-71PVDF layer through vacuum …

H Li, W Shi, Q Du, S Huang, H Zhang… - Journal of Industrial …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Although membrane distillation (MD) technology has the outstanding advantages of almost
100% solute retention and mild operation conditions, its further development is limited by …