Treatment of saline solutions using Air Gap Membrane Distillation: Experimental study

Abdullah Alkhudhiri; Naif Darwish; Nidal Hilal

doi:10.1016/j.desal.2012.09.010

Treatment of saline solutions using Air Gap Membrane Distillation: Experimental study

Abdullah Alkhudhiri, Naif Darwish, Nidal Hilal

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2-7
Number of pages	6
Journal	Desalination
Volume	323
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2012.09.010
State	Published - Aug 15 2013

Keywords

Air Gap Membrane Distillation (AGMD)
Desalination
Operating parameters

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Chemistry
General Chemical Engineering
General Materials Science
Water Science and Technology
Mechanical Engineering

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