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Membrane Distillation - Materials and Processes (Hardcover)
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Membrane Distillation - Materials and Processes (Hardcover)
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Desalination is imperative to mitigate the 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 desalination 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
temperature and pressure, and is less sensitive to the feed
concentration. MD is a desalination process that uses the vapor
pressure difference between the feed and permeate as the driving
force through the membranes. Over 2,800 scientific publications
appeared in Web of Science as of September 2019 (over 400 just in
2019) describing the current state of development and potential
future applications of MD. Although these publications provide
excellent knowledge regarding MD, they are rather fragmented, and
it is difficult 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 the recent developments in membranes
and processes. The membrane materials and configurations of MD
processes are systematically discussed, along with an introduction
to real pilot plants that have been installed and tested in the
field, and an economic analysis of MD. The objective of this book
is 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 a large number of different reference books.
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