Heat and mass transfer analysis in direct contact membrane distillation

Desalination

Volumn 219, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 272-292

  Qtaishat, M ^a   Matsuura, T ^a   Kruczek, B ^a   Khayet, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Boundary layer heat transfer coefficient; Direct contact membrane distillation; Effect of mass transfer; Evaporation efficiency; Heat transfer; Membrane heat and mass transfer coefficients

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; EVAPORATION; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATLAB;

DIRECT CONTACT MEMBRANE DISTILLATION; PERMEATE FLUX;

DISTILLATION;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; DISTILLATION; EVAPORATION; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATLAB;

BOUNDARY LAYER; DISTILLATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; EVAPORATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; MEMBRANE; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 36749013593     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2007.05.019     Document Type: Article

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