REVIEW ON MEMBRANE MODULE CONFIGURATIONS USED FOR MEMBRANE DISTILLATION PROCESS

GeoScience Engineering

HONG - HAI NGUYEN¹  THI - TRA - MY NGO¹  THI - KHANH - DIEUHOANG¹  THI - DIEM - NGOC NGUYEN¹  XUAN - THANH BUI¹ 

[1] Facultyof Environment and Natural Resources, University of Technology- Viet Nam NationalUniversity - Ho Chi Minh, 268 Ly Thuong Kiet street, District 10, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam;

关键词: spiral wound;    tubular;    membrane distillation;    hollow fibre;    flat sheet;   

DOI  :  10.35180/gse-2019-0001

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Nowadays, with the salient advantages of the seawater desalination process, membrane distillation (MD) technology has received increased interests to achieve desalination application. As a heat-based technology, by using the hydrophobic membrane, MD provides high efficiency in the desalination process of seawater, RO water and other solutes with high concentrations of dissolved solids. Besides, this is an alternative technology to significantly reduce the environmental impacts of traditional desalination technologies that commonly used, such as distillation or reverse osmosis. In many factors affecting the desalination capacity of the membrane distillation system, membrane module configuration has a strong influence in evaluating the economic and technical efficiency of the technology. This review aims to assess the suitability of the MD technology under different perspectives on the current types of membrane module configurations that include flat sheet, tubular, hollow fiber and spiral wound membrane. In addition, the evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of the membrane module configurations will guide further studies to improve the shortcomings of existingMD technologies.

【 授权许可】

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