Quantitative study on crystallization-induced scaling in high-concentration direct-contact membrane distillation

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 53, Issue 40, 2014, Pages 15656-15666

  Chen, Guizi ^a,b   Lu, Yinghong ^a,b   Yang, Xing ^b,c   Wang, Rong ^a,b   Fane, Anthony G ^a,b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS; DISTILLATION; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; KINETICS; MEMBRANES; POLYVINYLIDENE CHLORIDES; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

CRYSTAL CHARACTERISTICS; CRYSTAL SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; DIRECT CONTACT MEMBRANE DISTILLATION; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; MATHEMATICAL METHOD; MEMBRANE DISTILLATION; OPERATION CONDITIONS; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDES;

DISTILLERIES;

EID: 84907942518     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie501610q     Document Type: Article

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