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Pan Y, Shi Y, Li H, Wang W. Experimental and Numerical Investigations on Gas Injection-Enhanced Air Gap Membrane Distillation for Water Desalination. Ind Eng Chem Res 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.1c04527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Yanqiu Pan
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
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- Department of Chemical Machinery and Safety Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
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Abstract
Abstract
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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