Study on a new air-gap membrane distillation module for desalination

Desalination

Volumn 334, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 29-38

  Geng, Hongxin ^a   Wu, Haoyun ^a   Li, Pingli ^a   He, Qingfeng ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Air gap membrane distillation; Hollow fiber membrane module; Latent heat recovery

Indexed keywords

AIR-GAP MEMBRANES; HOLLOW FIBER MEMBRANE MODULES; HOLLOW FIBER MEMBRANES; INITIAL CONCENTRATION; MASS AND ENERGY BALANCE; POLARIZATION COEFFICIENTS; TEMPERATURE DROPS; THEORETICAL MODELING;

DESALINATION; DROPS; FIBERS; LATENT HEAT; WASTE HEAT; WATER FILTRATION; WATER VAPOR;

MEMBRANES;

DESALINATION; DISTILLATION; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MEMBRANE; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 84890854132     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2013.11.037     Document Type: Article

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