Membrane distillation heat transfer enhancement by CFD analysis of internal module geometry

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 25, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 195-209

  Cipollina, A ^a   Micale, G ^a   Rizzuti, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Design optimisation; Membrane distillation; Simulation; Spacer geometry; Temperature polarization

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251513282     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5004/dwt.2011.1455     Document Type: Article

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