TY - JOUR
T1 - Membrane distillation
T2 - A comprehensive review
AU - Alkhudhiri, Abdullah
AU - Darwish, Naif
AU - Hilal, Nidal
N1 - Funding Information:
Authors would like to thank King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) for funding Mr Abdullah Alkhudhiri.
Copyright:
Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2012/11/15
Y1 - 2012/11/15
N2 - Membrane Distillation (MD) is a thermally-driven separation process, in which only vapour molecules transfer through a microporous hydrophobic membrane. The driving force in the MD process is the vapour pressure difference induced by the temperature difference across the hydrophobic membrane. This process has various applications, such as desalination, wastewater treatment and in the food industry.This review addresses membrane characteristics, membrane-related heat and mass transfer concepts, fouling and the effects of operating condition. State of the art research results in these different areas will be presented and discussed.
AB - Membrane Distillation (MD) is a thermally-driven separation process, in which only vapour molecules transfer through a microporous hydrophobic membrane. The driving force in the MD process is the vapour pressure difference induced by the temperature difference across the hydrophobic membrane. This process has various applications, such as desalination, wastewater treatment and in the food industry.This review addresses membrane characteristics, membrane-related heat and mass transfer concepts, fouling and the effects of operating condition. State of the art research results in these different areas will be presented and discussed.
KW - AGMD
KW - Desalination
KW - Membrane
KW - Membrane distillation
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U2 - 10.1016/j.desal.2011.08.027
DO - 10.1016/j.desal.2011.08.027
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84856575421
VL - 287
SP - 2
EP - 18
JO - Desalination
JF - Desalination
SN - 0011-9164
ER -