Potential of membrane distillation in seawater desalination: Thermal efficiency, sensitivity study and cost estimation

2008 ◽  
Vol 323 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
S ALOBAIDANI ◽  
E CURCIO ◽  
F MACEDONIO ◽  
G DIPROFIO ◽  
H ALHINAI ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Efficiency ◽  
Cost Estimation ◽  
Sensitivity Study ◽  
Membrane Distillation ◽  
Seawater Desalination

scholarly journals Optimising thermal efficiency of direct contact membrane distillation by brine recycling for small-scale seawater desalination

Desalination ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 374 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hung C. Duong ◽  
Paul Cooper ◽  
Bart Nelemans ◽  
Tzahi Y. Cath ◽  
Long D. Nghiem
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Efficiency ◽  
Direct Contact ◽  
Membrane Distillation ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Seawater Desalination ◽  
Direct Contact Membrane Distillation

scholarly journals Synthesis and investigation of a novel nanocomposite for improved solar radiation absorbance of MD membranes

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (5A) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Kim Thanh Nguyen ◽  
Hung Cong Duong ◽  
Lan Thi Thu Tran
Keyword(s):  
Solar Radiation ◽  
Thermal Efficiency ◽  
Membrane Distillation ◽  
Solar Thermal ◽  
Seawater Desalination ◽  
Heating Efficiency ◽  
High Investment ◽  
Solar Thermal Collectors ◽  
Membrane Coating ◽  
Carbon Nanocomposite

Membrane distillation (MD) has emerged as a promising technology for seawater desalination to provide drinking water. The most considerable advantage of MD is the capacity to utilize thermal energy to reduce the energy cost of the solar-driven MD seawater desalination systems. However, limited thermal efficiency is one of the key challenges that prevent the wide application of MD for seawater desalination. Due to low thermal efficiency, most solar-driven MD systems require large and complex arrays of solar thermal collectors, leading to the significantly high investment costs of the MD systems. MD membranes coated with solar radiation absorbing materials have been proposed for the solar-driven MD process to obviate the need for large arrays of solar thermal collectors. In this study, we synthesized a novel black spinel-carbon nanocomposite for MD membrane coating to improve the solar radiation absorbance of the membrane, thus enhancing thermal efficiency of the MD system. The preliminary experimental results demonstrated that the black spinel-carbon nanocomposite could absorb light at a wider wavelength range from visible to far-red; therefore, they exhibited increased solar radiation absorbance and hence heating efficiency compared with single materials.

Modeling and optimization of a commercial permeate gap spiral wound membrane distillation module for seawater desalination

Desalination ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 419 ◽  
pp. 160-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Ruiz-Aguirre ◽  
J.A. Andrés-Mañas ◽  
J.M. Fernández-Sevilla ◽  
G. Zaragoza
Keyword(s):  
Membrane Distillation ◽  
Seawater Desalination ◽  
Modeling And Optimization ◽  
Spiral Wound

scholarly journals A green membrane distillation system for seawater desalination: Response surface modelling and optimization

2018 ◽  
Vol 361 ◽  
pp. 012011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siti Khadijah Hubadillah ◽  
Mohd Hafiz Dzarfan Othman ◽  
Paran Gani ◽  
Ahmad Fauzi Ismail ◽  
Mukhlis A. Rahman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Response Surface ◽  
Membrane Distillation ◽  
Seawater Desalination ◽  
Surface Modelling ◽  
Distillation System ◽  
Response Surface Modelling ◽  
Modelling And Optimization

scholarly journals Refinery processed water treatment via the low energy Direct Contact Membrane Distillation (DCMD)

2019 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khadije El Kadi ◽  
Isam Janajreh ◽  
Raed Hashaikeh ◽  
Rizwan Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Water Treatment ◽  
Pore Size ◽  
Mass Flux ◽  
Thermal Efficiency ◽  
Membrane Distillation ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Water Separation ◽  
Oil Water Separation ◽  
Oil Water ◽  
Oil Fouling

The amount of refinery water discharged to the environment from oil industry has increased vigorously in current times. Recent research has been focusing on the use of membrane technology for the refinery processed water treatment. Membrane Distillation (MD) is an emerging technology that has been highly marked by its low-energy requirement and high desalination efficiency. However, conventional MD membranes (i.e. PVDF) are not feasible for oil-water separation processes. That is due to the oleo-philic property of the membrane and thus, causes membrane fouling and halts the production of mass flux. An anti-oil-fouling membrane is essential for a successful oil-water separation by MD. Underwater-oleophobic as well as omniphobic are two different approaches in fabricating such membranes. The former approach is based on the asymmetric surface wettability, whereas the latter is attributed to the surface structure that is characterized by having a very large contact angle for all liquids. However, such composite membranes are characterized by their lower porosity, smaller pore size, but with unique surface slippage, in comparable with the conventional PVDF membranes. As such, in this work, high fidelity numerical simulation of DCMD is performed using non-isothermal Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) validated model in order to assess the role of the anti-oil-fouling membrane properties on the performance of the DCMD. Results are presented in terms of temperature polarization coefficient, mass flux, latent heat flux, and thermal efficiency. Results show the compromising effect of membrane porosity to 45% reduces the mass flux and thermal efficiency respectively by 68% and 40%, and reduction of pore size to the half (i.e. 50 nm) can cause a reduction by 50.6% in mass flux and 24.18% in thermal efficiency compared to the baseline (i.e. 100 nm). On the other hand, the omniphobic slippage effect leads to a noticeable gain of 16% in DCMD mass flux with slight gain in thermal efficiency. This can maximize mass flux and thermal efficiency to be as much as 50.3 kg/m2 h and 69%, respectively.

Photothermal Membrane Distillation for Seawater Desalination

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 1603504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Politano ◽  
Pietro Argurio ◽  
Gianluca Di Profio ◽  
Vanna Sanna ◽  
Anna Cupolillo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Membrane Distillation ◽  
Seawater Desalination

scholarly journals Structural tailoring of hierarchical fibrous composite membranes to balance mass transfer and heat transfer for state-of-the-art desalination performance in membrane distillation

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 2376-2384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaochan An ◽  
Guorong Xu ◽  
Baolei Xie ◽  
Yunxia Hu
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Mass Transfer ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Fibrous Composite ◽  
Composite Membranes ◽  
Membrane Distillation ◽  
Seawater Desalination ◽  
Wastewater Recycling

Membrane distillation (MD) displays superior characteristics to other technologies to alleviate the ever-increasing freshwater crisis through seawater desalination and/or wastewater recycling.

Evaluation method of membrane performance in membrane distillation process for seawater desalination

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (17) ◽  
pp. 2147-2152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seungjoon Chung ◽  
Chang Duck Seo ◽  
Jae-Hoon Choi ◽  
Jinwook Chung
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Membrane Distillation ◽  
Distillation Process ◽  
Seawater Desalination ◽  
Membrane Performance
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