Membrane Distillation: Materials and Processes

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This book aims to provide a short but reasonably comprehensive introduction to MD to graduate students and persons with an engineering or natural science background to gain a basic understanding of MD and the associated materials, configurations, and applications without studying many different reference books.
(Imprint: Nova)


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Membrane Distillation: Materials and Processes

Desalination is imperative to mitigate global water scarcity as it produces drinking water from unpotable water. Currently, reverse osmosis membrane processes are widely used and account for 60% of desalination plants globally as they have lower energy requirements than other techniques, such as thermal desalination. Another promising alternative to desalination is membrane distillation (MD), which has been highlighted as one of the most promising and cost-effective technologies over the last five decades.

MD is a thermally driven desalination process that uses microporous and hydrophobic membranes through which only vapor can pass. Because non-volatile ions cannot pass through the membrane, MD theoretically achieves 100% salt rejection. In addition, MD is superior to other techniques as it is conducted at relatively low temperatures and pressure and is less sensitive to the feed concentration. MD uses the vapor pressure difference between the feed and permeate as the driving force through the membranes.

As of September 2019, over 2,800 scientific publications (over 400 just in 2019) described MD’s current development and potential future applications on the Web of Science. Although these publications provide excellent knowledge regarding MD, they are somewhat fragmented, and it isn’t easy to gain a complete overview of the basic principles and functions of membranes for MD configurations and their application to real plants. In this book, we introduce MD from the invention of this technique to recent developments in membranes and processes.

MD processes’ membrane materials and configurations are systematically discussed, an introduction to real pilot plants installed and tested in the field and an economic analysis of MD. This book aims to provide a short but reasonably comprehensive introduction to MD to graduate students and persons with an engineering or natural science background to gain a basic understanding of MD and the associated materials, configurations, and applications without studying many different reference books.
(Imprint: Nova)

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