Membrane Distillation Technology as an Alternative Process for Desalination of Saline Water

In this study, membrane distillation (MD) process was introduced as an emerging technology indesalination processes. This process has various applications, such as desalination of seawater,wastewater treatment and also producing ultrapure water in electronic and food industry. MD has manyadvantages, for instance low energy consumption, less fouling and high rejection factor. However, MD isaccompanying by low permeate flux and the heat lost by conduction in the membrane. It is predicted thatMD is an alternative technology for conventional desalination processes due to lower operating andinvestment costs and high quality of produced water.

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Desalination ، Membrane distillation ، DCMD ، AGMD ، SGMD ، VMD