Thermal Performance of Membrane Distillation

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: carbon black; condensation; direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD); direct solar membrane distillation; eductor; electrical heating; energy consumption; Environmental science, engineering and technology; experiment; flue gas desulphurization; flux; gained output ratio; heat transfer; History of engineering and technology; integrated MD units; irradiation heating; mechanism visualization; membrane contactor; membrane desalination; membrane distillation; membrane evaporation; modeling; municipal solid waste; NaHCO3; Nusselt number; osmotic membrane distillation crystallization; photothermal; PVDF; renewable energy; saturation; solar pond; specific energy consumption; submerged module; sweeping gas membrane distillation; Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes; Technology: general issues; thermal conductivity; thermal efficiency; thermal performance; tortuosity factor; vacuum membrane distillation (VMD); waste-to-energy; water desalination; water recovery factor
• ISBN: 9783036577685; 3036577696; 3036577688; 9783036577692
• DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-7769-2

Membrane Distillation (MD) is based on the evaporation of a hot feed through a microporous and hydrophobic membrane. Thermal energy is needed to heat the feed up to the desired temperature during the process. Therefore, improvements of the thermal performance of MD are important to apply this technology at large scale. The Special Issue “Thermal Performance of Membrane Distillation” focuses on the recent research efforts made in this direction, covering both the development of new membranes and the optimization of the process.​​