High-Efficiency Water Recovery from Urine by Vacuum Membrane Distillation for Space Applications: Water Quality Improvement and Operation Stability [PDF]
Membranes, 2022 Water recovery by membrane distillation (MD) is an attractive alternative to existing urine treatment systems because it could improve the water recovery rate and reliability in space missions.
Fei Wang +7 more
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Mechanism of Silica Nanoparticle-Induced Particulate Fouling in Vacuum Membrane Distillation [PDF]
MembranesMembrane distillation (MD) is a process driven by the vapor pressure difference dependent on temperature variation, utilizing a hydrophobic porous membrane. MD operates at low pressure and temperature, exhibiting resilience to osmotic pressure.
Yejin Lee +3 more
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Addressing Contaminants of Emerging Concern in Aquaculture: A Vacuum Membrane Distillation Approach [PDF]
MembranesThe presence of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in agricultural and fisheries water has raised significant environmental and health concerns. Vacuum membrane distillation (VMD) has shown promise as an effective method for removing non-volatile ...
Claudio Marcos Eugênio Malaghini +4 more
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Desalination and Water TreatmentThis study focuses on the integration of vacuum membrane distillation into the multi-effect distillation (VMD-MED) system, incorporating heat recovery mechanisms to augment fresh water productivity and minimize the specific thermal energy consumption of ...
Wajeeha Bibi +3 more
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Experimental Investigation of Vacuum Membrane Distillation (VMD) Performance Based on Operational Parameters for Clean Water Production [PDF]
MATEC Web of ConferencesFreshwater shortage is an ongoing concern across the world, due to increasing populations and climate change. Vacuum membrane distillation (VMD) is a viable approach for producing fresh water to meet the needs of society.
Iqbal Faisal +3 more
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Techno-Economic Analysis of Vacuum Membrane Distillation for Seawater Desalination [PDF]
Membranes, 2023 Seawater desalination is an affordable and viable solution to the growing freshwater scarcity problem in water scarce regions. The current study focuses on cost analysis of Vacuum Membrane Distillation (VMD) setup for removing salts from water.
Hassaan Idrees +6 more
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Seawater Desalination Based on a Bubbling and Vacuum-Enhanced Direct Contact Membrane Distillation [PDF]
International Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2021 A Bubbling and Vacuum-enhanced direct contact membrane distillation (BVDCMD) is proposed to improve the water production rate of the direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD-)based seawater desalination process. Its heat and mass transfer mechanism are
Guangfu Cao +6 more
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Increasing the Performance of Vacuum Membrane Distillation Using Micro-Structured Hydrophobic Aluminum Hollow Fiber Membranes [PDF]
Applied Sciences, 2017 This study develops a micro-structured hydrophobic alumina hollow fiber with a high permeate flux of 60 Lm−2h−1 and salt rejection over 99.9% in a vacuum membrane distillation process.
Chia-Chieh Ko +7 more
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Efficient Estimation of Permeate Flux of Asymmetric Ceramic Membranes for Vacuum Membrane Distillation [PDF]
Molecules, 2022 Ceramic membranes have the advantages of high mechanical strength and thermal stability and are promising candidates for membrane distillation. Ceramic membranes are generally designed to have a multilayer structure with different pore sizes to create a ...
Kaiyun Fu +5 more
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Ethanol Separation from an Ethanol–Water Solution Using Vacuum Membrane Distillation [PDF]
Membranes, 2022 The vacuum membrane distillation (VMD) process was applied to separate ethanol from a simulated ethanol–water solution using a commercial polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) membrane. The presence of ethanol in the ethanol–water solution with a 2 wt.% ethanol
Abeer G. Nassif +3 more
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