TY - JOUR
T1 - Treatment of saline solutions using Air Gap Membrane Distillation
T2 - Experimental study
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 A. Alkhudhiri.
PY - 2013/8/15
Y1 - 2013/8/15
N2 - Air Gap Membrane Distillation (AGMD) has been implemented for four different salts. The permeate fluxes of sodium chloride (NaCl), magnesium chloride (MgCl2), sodium carbonate (Na2CO3), and sodium sulphate (Na2SO4) are measured at different feed concentrations and different operating parameters using Polytetrafluoroethylene (TF200) membrane. The influence of membrane pore size is investigated for the different salts. Also, the effect of feed concentration, feed temperature, coolant temperature and feed flow rate on permeate flux is studied. The flux declines as the concentration of salt and coolant temperatures increase, and increases as the feed temperature and flow rate increase. Moreover, the energy consumption was measured at different salt concentrations for the different membrane pore size and was found to be independent of membrane pore size, and salt type.
AB - Air Gap Membrane Distillation (AGMD) has been implemented for four different salts. The permeate fluxes of sodium chloride (NaCl), magnesium chloride (MgCl2), sodium carbonate (Na2CO3), and sodium sulphate (Na2SO4) are measured at different feed concentrations and different operating parameters using Polytetrafluoroethylene (TF200) membrane. The influence of membrane pore size is investigated for the different salts. Also, the effect of feed concentration, feed temperature, coolant temperature and feed flow rate on permeate flux is studied. The flux declines as the concentration of salt and coolant temperatures increase, and increases as the feed temperature and flow rate increase. Moreover, the energy consumption was measured at different salt concentrations for the different membrane pore size and was found to be independent of membrane pore size, and salt type.
KW - Air Gap Membrane Distillation (AGMD)
KW - Desalination
KW - Operating parameters
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U2 - 10.1016/j.desal.2012.09.010
DO - 10.1016/j.desal.2012.09.010
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84880329227
VL - 323
SP - 2
EP - 7
JO - Desalination
JF - Desalination
SN - 0011-9164
ER -