Novel designs for improving the performance of hollow fiber membrane distillation modules

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 384, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 52-62

  Yang, Xing ^a,b   Wang, Rong ^a,b   Fane, Anthony G ^a,b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Hollow fibers; Membrane distillation; Module design; Temperature polarization

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE TRACERS; DIRECT CONTACT MEMBRANE DISTILLATION; FIBER GEOMETRIES; FLOW DISTRIBUTION; FLUX ENHANCEMENT; HEAT TRANSFER ANALYSIS; HOLLOW FIBER; HOLLOW FIBER MEMBRANES; HOLLOW FIBER MODULE; LAMINAR FLOW REGIMES; MEMBRANE DISTILLATION; MEMBRANE SURFACE; MODULE DESIGN; MODULE PERFORMANCE; NOVEL DESIGN; PERMEATION FLUXES; PROCESS HEAT; TEMPERATURE POLARIZATION; TEMPERATURE POLARIZATION COEFFICIENT; UNIFORM FLOW DISTRIBUTIONS;

DESIGN; DISTILLATION; HEAT TRANSFER; LAMINAR FLOW; MEMBRANES; PERMEATION; POLARIZATION; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

FIBERS;

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FEED FLOW VELOCITY; GEOMETRY; HEAT TRANSFER; HOLLOW FIBER MEMBRANE DISTILLATION; MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 80054836135     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2011.09.007     Document Type: Article

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