An analytical flux decline model for membrane distillation

Desalination

Volumn 345, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-12

  Ramezanianpour, Mohammad ^a   Sivakumar, Muttucumaru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fouling model; Mass transfer; Membrane distillation; Membrane scaling; Pore blockage

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FLUX DECLINE MODEL; FOULING MODEL; INTERMEDIATE PORE BLOCKING; MASS TRANSFER PHENOMENA; MEMBRANE DISTILLATION; MEMBRANE SCALING; OPERATING CONDITION; PORE BLOCKAGES;

MEMBRANES;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; DISTILLATION; FOULING; HYDRODYNAMICS; MASS TRANSFER; MEMBRANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE;

EID: 84899949974     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2014.04.006     Document Type: Article

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