Performance, energy and economic investigation of airgap membrane distillation system: An experimental and numerical investigation

• Main Authors: Gopi, G., Vasanthkumar, M., Arthanareeswaran, G., Ismail, A. F., Thuyavan, Y. Lukka, Goh, P. S., Matsuura, T.
• Format: Article
• Published: Elsevier B.V. 2023
• Subjects: TP Chemical technology
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/106557/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2023.116400

Airgap membrane distillation (AGMD) is an efficient configuration employed widely for the solar membrane distillation desalination process. In the present work, 1-D Knudsen and molecular transport (KMT) model has been developed to investigate the performance of the flat sheet PVDF membrane. A new so...