Status of membrane distillation for water and wastewater treatment-A review

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 52, Issue 28-30, 2014, Pages 5199-5218

  Pangarkar, Bhausaheb L ^a   Sane, Mukund G ^b   Parjane, Saroj B ^a   Guddad, Mahendra ^a  

^a Dept of Information Technology   (India)

^b NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Fouling; Membrane configuration; Membrane design; Membrane distillation; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; DISTILLATION; HEAT TRANSFER; MEMBRANE; PERMEABILITY; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 84879561381     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19443994.2013.808422     Document Type: Article

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