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Ocean thermocline driven membrane distillation process
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In this article, systems and methods using membrane distillation are provided for desalinating water, for example for the production of potable water, to address freshwater requirements, and they do not require applying an external heat source, or the energy cost of the heating source, to heat the feed stream to the membrane.Abstract:
Systems and methods using membrane distillation are provided for desalinating water, for example for the production of potable water, to address freshwater requirements. In an aspect the systems and methods do not require applying an external heat source, or the energy cost of the heating source, to heat the feed stream to the membrane. In an aspect, the sensible heat present in surface seawater is used for the heat energy for the warm stream fed to the membrane, and deep seawater is used as the cold/coolant feed to the membrane to provide the needed temperature gradient or differential across the membrane.read more
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Advances in Membrane Distillation for Water Desalination and Purification Applications
Lucy Mar Camacho,Ludovic F. Dumée,Jianhua Zhang,Jun-de Li,Mikel Duke,Juan Gomez,Stephen Gray +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the fundamental heat and mass transfer processes in membrane distillation, recent advances in membrane technology, module configurations, and applications and economics of membrane distilled water is presented.
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Membrane Distillation: Principles and Applications
Mohamed Khayet,剛 松浦 +1 more
TL;DR: This is a comprehensive review on the development of MD membranes, MD modules, MD membrane characterization, MD configurations, applications in different areas and theoretical models.
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Modeling of air-gap membrane distillation process: A theoretical and experimental study
Ahmad Salem Alsaadi,Noreddine Ghaffour,Jun-de Li,Stephen Gray,Lijo Francis,Husnul Maab,Gary L. Amy +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, a 1-dimensional air gap membrane distillation (AGMD) model for flat sheet type modules has been developed, which is based on mathematical equations that describe the heat and mass transfer mechanisms of a single-stage AGMD process.
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Observations of the summer Red Sea circulation
TL;DR: A cruise was conducted in the Red Sea during the summer of 2001 involving hydrographic, meteorological, and direct current observations as mentioned in this paper, where the most prominent feature, characteristic of the summer circulation and exchange with the Indian Ocean, is a temperature, salinity, and oxygen minimum located around a depth of 75 m at the southern end of the basin, associated with Gulf of Aden Intermediate Water inflowing from the Gulf of Yemen during the season as an intruding subsurface layer.
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Performance evaluation of the DCMD desalination process under bench scale and large scale module operating conditions
TL;DR: In this article, the flux performance of different hydrophobic microporous flat sheet commercial membranes made of poly tetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and poly propylene (PP) was tested for Red Sea water desalination using the direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) process, under bench scale (high ΔT) and large scale module (low ΔT).