Production of drinking water from seawater using membrane distillation (MD) alternative: Direct contact MD and sweeping gas MD approaches

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 52, Issue 13-15, 2014, Pages 2372-2381

  Shirazi, Mohammad Mahdi A ^a   Kargari, Ali ^b   Bastani, Dariush ^c   Fatehi, Leila ^d  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^d ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Desalination; Direct contact MD; Drinking water; Module design; Permeation flux; Persian Gulf seawater; PTFE membrane; Sweeping gas MD

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DESALINATION; DRINKING WATER; MEMBRANE; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEAWATER;

ARABIAN SEA; INDIAN OCEAN; PERSIAN GULF;

EID: 84898716963     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19443994.2013.797367     Document Type: Article

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