Desalination of thermally softened water by membrane distillation process

Desalination

Volumn 257, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 30-35

  Gryta, Marek ^a  

^a WEST POMERANIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Desalination; Membrane distillation; Thermal softening; Water pretreatment

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION REACTION; DESALINATION MEMBRANES; HIGH HARDNESS; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; MEMBRANE DISTILLATION; MEMBRANE SURFACE; POLYPROPYLENE MEMBRANE; PRE-TREATMENT; RIVERS AND LAKES; SOLUBLE SALTS; THERMAL PRE-TREATMENT; THERMAL SOFTENING; THERMAL WATERS; UNDERGROUND WATER;

DESALINATION; DISSOLUTION; DISTILLATION; GROUNDWATER; IONS; WATER FILTRATION;

MEMBRANES;

BICARBONATE; DESALINATION; DISTILLATION; MEMBRANE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SURFACE WATER; THERMAL WATER; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 77951124326     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2010.03.012     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Banat F., and Jwaied N. Economic evaluation of desalination by small-scale autonomous solar-powered membrane distillation units. Desalination 220 (2008) 566-573
2. Karakulski K., Gryta M., and Morawski A. Membrane processes used for potable water quality improvement. Desalination 145 (2002) 315-319
3. Singh R. Hybrid membrane systems for water purification (2006), Elsevier, Oxford
4. El-Bourawi M.S., Ding Z., Ma R., and Khayet M. A framework for better understanding membrane distillation separation process. J. Membr. Sci. 285 (2006) 4-29
5. Abu Al-Rub F.A., Banat F., and Beni-Melhim K. Parametric sensitivity analysis of direct-contact membrane distillation. Sep. Sci. Technol. 37 (2002) 3245-3271
6. Schneider K., Hölz W., and Wollbeck R. Membranes and modules for transmembrane distillation. J. Membr. Sci. 39 (1988) 25-42
7. Gryta M. Influence of polypropylene membrane surface porosity on the performance of membrane distillation process. J. Membr. Sci. 287 (2007) 67-78
8. Li B., and Sirkar K.K. Novel membrane and device for direct contact membrane distillation-based desalination process. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 43 (2004) 5300-5309
9. Khayet M., Mengual J.I., and Matsuura T. Porous hydrophobic/hydrophilic composite membranes. Application in desalination using direct contact membrane distillation. J. Membr. Sci. 252 (2005) 101-113
10. Al-Obaidani S., Curcio E., Macedonio F., and Di Profio G. Potential of membrane distillation in seawater desalination: thermal efficiency, sensitivity study and cost estimation. J. Membr. Sci. 323 (2008) 85-93
11. Teoh M.M., Bonyadi S., and Chung T.S. Investigation of different hollow fiber module designs or flux enhancement in the membrane distillation process. J. Membr. Sci 311 (2008) 371-379
12. Galvez J.B., Garcia-Rodriguez L., and Martin-Mateos I. Seawater desalination by an innovative solar-powered membrane distillation system: the MEDESOL project. Desalination 246 (2009) 567-576
13. Banat F., Jwaied N., Rommel M., and Koschikowski J. Performance evaluation of the "large SMADES" autonomous desalination solar-driven membrane distillation plant in Aqaba, Jordan. Desalination 217 (2007) 17-28
14. Fath H.E.S., Elsherbiny S.M., Hassan A.A., Rommel M., Wieghaus M., Koschikowski J., and Vatansever M. PV and thermally driven small-scale, stand-alone solar desalination systems with very low maintenance needs. Desalination 225 (2008) 58-69
15. Gryta M. Long-term performance of membrane distillation process. J. Membr. Sci. 265 (2005) 153-159
16. Gryta M. Fouling in direct contact membrane distillation. J. Membr. Sci. 325 (2008) 383-394
17. Gryta M. Chemical pretreatment of feed water for membrane distillation. Chem. Pap. 62 (2008) 100-105
18. Qu D., Wang J., Wang L., Hou D., Lian Z., and Wang B. Integration of accelerated precipitation softening with membrane distillation for high-recovery desalination of primary reverse osmosis concentrate. Sep. Purif. Technol. 67 (2009) 21-25
19. Wang J., Qu D., Tie M., Ren H., Peng X., and Luan Z. Effect of coagulation pretreatment on membrane distillation process for desalination of recirculating cooling water. Sep. Purif. Technol. 64 (2008) 108-115
20. Karakulski K., and Gryta M. Water demineralisation by NF/MD integrated processes. Desalination 177 (2005) 109-119
21. Gryta M. Scaling diminution by heterogeneous crystallization in a filtration element integrated with membrane distillation module. Pol. J. Chem. Tech. 11 (2009) 60-65
22. 2- ions in aqueous solutions. Desalination 69 (1988) 241-249
23. Gryta M. Water membrane distiller. Inż. Chem. Proc. 25 (2004) 381-391
24. Gryta M., Karakulski K., Tomaszewska M., and Morawski A. Treatment of effluents from the regeneration of ion exchangers using the MD process. Desalination 180 (2005) 173-180
25. Dojlido J.R., and Best G.A. Chemistry of water and water pollution (1993), Ellis Horwood, Chichester
26. Hobler T. Heat Transfer and Heat Exchanger. 6th Ed (1986), WNT, Warsaw (in Polish)