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Ruby-Figueroa R, Morelli R, Conidi C, Cassano A. Red Fruit Juice Concentration by Osmotic Distillation: Optimization of Operating Conditions by Response Surface Methodology. MEMBRANES 2023; 13:membranes13050496. [PMID: 37233557 DOI: 10.3390/membranes13050496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2023] [Revised: 04/27/2023] [Accepted: 05/05/2023] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Osmotic distillation (OD) was implemented at laboratory scale to concentrate a red fruit juice produced from a blend of blood orange, prickly pear, and pomegranate juice. The raw juice was clarified by microfiltration and then concentrated by using an OD plant equipped with a hollow fiber membrane contactor. The clarified juice was recirculated on the shell side of the membrane module, while calcium chloride dehydrate solutions, used as extraction brine, were recirculated on the lumen side in a counter-current mode. The influence of different process parameters, such as brine concentration (20, 40, and 60% w/w), juice flow rate (0.3, 2.0, and 3.7 L min-1), and brine flow rate (0.3, 2.0, and 3.7 L min-1) on the performance of the OD process in terms of evaporation flux and increase in juice concentration, was investigated according to the response surface methodology (RSM). From the regression analysis, the evaporation flux and juice concentration rate were expressed with quadratic equations of juice and brine flow rates, as well as the brine concentration. The desirability function approach was applied to analyse the regression model equations in order to maximize the evaporation flux and juice concentration rate. The optimal operating conditions were found to be 3.32 L min-1 brine flow rate, 3.32 L min-1 juice flow rate, and an initial brine concentration of 60% w/w. Under these conditions, the average evaporation flux and the increase in the soluble solid content of the juice resulted in 0.41 kg m-2 h-1 and 12.0 °Brix, respectively. Experimental data on evaporation flux and juice concentration, obtained in optimized operating conditions, resulted in good agreement with the predicted values of the regression model.
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- René Ruby-Figueroa
- Programa Institucional de Fomento a la Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación (PIDi), Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Santiago 8940577, Chile
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- Institute on Membrane Technology, ITM-CNR, Via Pietro Bucci 17/C, 87036 Rende, CS, Italy
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- Institute on Membrane Technology, ITM-CNR, Via Pietro Bucci 17/C, 87036 Rende, CS, Italy
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- Institute on Membrane Technology, ITM-CNR, Via Pietro Bucci 17/C, 87036 Rende, CS, Italy
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Guillen-Burrieza E, Moritz E, Hobisch M, Muster-Slawitsch B. Recovery of ammonia from centrate water in urban waste water treatment plants via direct contact membrane distillation: Process performance in long-term pilot-scale operation. J Memb Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2022.121161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Seawater Desalination Based on a Bubbling and Vacuum-Enhanced Direct Contact Membrane Distillation. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 2021. [DOI: 10.1155/2021/3587057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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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 theoretically analyzed, and a CFD model is established, which is verified by the published data. Four types of the noncondensable gas, “O2,” “air,” “N2,” and “H2,” are adopted as the bubbling gas, and their process enhancements under different pressure of permeate side, temperature, and NaCl concentration of feed side and flow velocities are investigated. The results show that the permeate flux increased remarkably with the decrease in the viscosity of the bubbling gas, and hence, “H2” is the best option for the bubbling gas, with the permeate flux being enhanced by 144.11% and the effective heat consumption being increased by 20.81% on average. The effective water production rate of BVDCMD is predicted to be 42.38% more than that of DCMD, proving its feasibility in the seawater desalination.
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Ajdar M, Azdarpour A, Mansourizadeh A, Honarvar B. Improvement of porous polyvinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluropropylene hollow fiber membranes for sweeping gas membrane distillation of ethylene glycol solution. Chin J Chem Eng 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cjche.2020.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Cheng D, Li N, Bai H, Zhang J, Wang Z, Zeng F, Sun J, Xie Z. Simulation and multi-objective optimization of heat and mass transfer in direct contact membrane distillation by response surface methodology integrated modeling. Chem Eng Res Des 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2020.05.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Abejón R, Saidani H, Deratani A, Richard C, Sánchez-Marcano J. Concentration of 1,3-dimethyl-2-imidazolidinone in Aqueous Solutions by Sweeping Gas Membrane Distillation: From Bench to Industrial Scale. MEMBRANES 2019; 9:membranes9120158. [PMID: 31779174 PMCID: PMC6950459 DOI: 10.3390/membranes9120158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2019] [Revised: 11/22/2019] [Accepted: 11/24/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Sweeping gas membrane distillation (SGMD) is a useful option for dehydration of aqueous solvent solutions. This study investigated the technical viability and competitiveness of the use of SGMD to concentrate aqueous solutions of 1,3-dimethyl-2-imidazolidinone (DMI), a dipolar aprotic solvent. The concentration from 30% to 50% of aqueous DMI solutions was attained in a bench installation with Liqui-Cel SuperPhobic® hollow-fiber membranes. The selected membranes resulted in low vapor flux (below 0.15 kg/h·m2) but were also effective for minimization of DMI losses through the membranes, since these losses were maintained below 1% of the evaporated water flux. This fact implied that more than 99.2% of the DMI fed to the system was recovered in the produced concentrated solution. The influence of temperature and flowrate of the feed and sweep gas streams was analyzed to develop simple empirical models that represented the vapor permeation and DMI losses through the hollow-fiber membranes. The proposed models were successfully applied to the scaling-up of the process with a preliminary multi-objective optimization of the process based on the simultaneous minimization of the total membrane area, the heat requirement and the air consumption. Maximal feed temperature and air flowrate (and the corresponding high operation costs) were optimal conditions, but the excessive membrane area required implied an uncompetitive alternative for direct industrial application.
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- Ricardo Abejón
- Institut Européen des Membranes UMR 5635, CNRS, ENSCM, Université de Montpellier, CC 047, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier, France; (R.A.); (H.S.); (A.D.)
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Cantabria, Avda. Los Castros s/n, 39005 Santander, Cantabria, Spain
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- Institut Européen des Membranes UMR 5635, CNRS, ENSCM, Université de Montpellier, CC 047, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier, France; (R.A.); (H.S.); (A.D.)
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- Institut Européen des Membranes UMR 5635, CNRS, ENSCM, Université de Montpellier, CC 047, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier, France; (R.A.); (H.S.); (A.D.)
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- Institut Européen des Membranes UMR 5635, CNRS, ENSCM, Université de Montpellier, CC 047, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier, France; (R.A.); (H.S.); (A.D.)
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Concentrating of Sugar Syrup in Bioethanol Production Using Sweeping Gas Membrane Distillation. MEMBRANES 2019; 9:membranes9050059. [PMID: 31052450 PMCID: PMC6571967 DOI: 10.3390/membranes9050059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2019] [Revised: 04/21/2019] [Accepted: 04/25/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Membrane distillation (MD) is a relatively new and underdeveloped separation process which can be classified as a green technology. However, in order to investigate its dark points, sensitivity analysis and optimization studies are critical. In this work, a number of MD experiments were performed for concentrating glucose syrup using a sweeping gas membrane distillation (SGMD) process as a critical step in bioethanol production. The experimental design method was the Taguchi orthogonal array (an L9 orthogonal one) methodology. The experimental results showed the effects of various operating variables, including temperature (45, 55, and 65 °C), flow rate (200, 400, and 600 ml/min) and glucose concentration (10, 30, and 50 g/l) of the feed stream, as well as sweeping gas flow rate (4, 10, and 16 standard cubic feet per hour (SCFH)) on the permeate flux. The main effects of the operating variables were reported. An ANOVA analysis showed that the most and the least influenced variables were feed temperature and feed flow rate, each one with 62.1% and 6.1% contributions, respectively. The glucose rejection was measured at 99% for all experiments. Results indicated that the SGMD process could be considered as a versatile and clean process in the sugar concentration step of the bioethanol production.
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In recent years, membrane distillation (MD) has evidently emerged as one of the promising separation processes, with increasing areas of application including but not limited to desalination, pharmaceutical and textile wastewater purification, food processing, concentration of aqueous solution, breaking azeotropic mixtures, and extraction of volatile organic compounds. Primarily, MD has been categorized on the basis of vapor collection and condensation arrangement methods. Among the various categories, air gap membrane distillation (AGMD), in which an air gap is maintained across the membrane and the cooling plate, turns out to be an important and efficient process. Lately, AGMD has received significant attention of researchers around the world which motivates the present work. This paper aims to review the work done so far concerning the AGMD in order to provide a holistic view that covers the principles and applications of AGMD, effect of process parameters, membrane parameters, mathematical modeling, fouling, temperature and concentration polarization, types of membrane module, energy consumption, recent developments in AGMD process, cost estimation, and heat integration with AGMD. To the best of our knowledge, the present work is the first attempt to exhaustively review the AGMD process.
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Modeling and multi-objective optimization of vacuum membrane distillation for enhancement of water productivity and thermal efficiency in desalination. Chem Eng Res Des 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2018.02.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Savaş Bahçeci K, Gül Akıllıoğlu H, Gökmen V. Osmotic and membrane distillation for the concentration of tomato juice: Effects on quality and safety characteristics. INNOV FOOD SCI EMERG 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ifset.2015.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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González-Bravo R, Nápoles-Rivera F, Ponce-Ortega JM, Nyapathi M, Elsayed N, El-Halwagi MM. Synthesis of optimal thermal membrane distillation networks. AIChE J 2014. [DOI: 10.1002/aic.14652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Ramón González-Bravo
- Chemical Engineering Dept.; Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo; Morelia Michoacán 58060 México
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- Chemical Engineering Dept.; Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo; Morelia Michoacán 58060 México
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- Chemical Engineering Dept.; Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo; Morelia Michoacán 58060 México
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- Chemical Engineering Dept.; Texas A&M University; College Station TX 77843
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- Petroleum Engineering Dept.; Texas A&M University; College Station TX 77843
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- Chemical Engineering Dept.; Texas A&M University; College Station TX 77843
- Chemical and Materials Engineering Dept.; King Abdulaziz University; Jeddah Saudi Arabia
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Boubakri A, Hafiane A, Bouguecha SAT. Application of response surface methodology for modeling and optimization of membrane distillation desalination process. J IND ENG CHEM 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jiec.2013.11.060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Shi JY, Zhao ZP, Zhu CY. Studies on simulation and experiments of ethanol–water mixture separation by VMD using a PTFE flat membrane module. Sep Purif Technol 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2013.12.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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