Effects of membrane properties on water production cost in small scale membrane distillation systems

Desalination

Volumn 306, Issue , 2012, Pages 60-71

  Ali, Mohamed I ^a   Summers, Edward K ^b   Arafat, Hassan A ^a   Lienhard V, John H ^b  

^a KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

AGMD; DCMD; Membrane distillation; Membrane properties; Small scale; Water cost

Indexed keywords

AGMD; DCMD; MEMBRANE DISTILLATION; MEMBRANE PROPERTIES; SMALL SCALE; WATER COSTS;

DESALINATION; DISTILLATION EQUIPMENT; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; WASTE HEAT; WATER FILTRATION;

COSTS;

DESALINATION; DISTILLATION; MEMBRANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; OSMOSIS;

EID: 84866776476     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2012.07.043     Document Type: Article

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