Characteristic and performance of polyvinylidene fluoride membranes blended with different additives in direct contact membrane distillation

• Main Authors: Chong, Kok Chung, Lai, Soon Onn, Lee, K. M., Lau, Woei Jye, Ismail, Ahmad Fauzi, Ooi, Boon Seng
• Format: Article
• Published: Taylor and Francis Inc. 2015
• Subjects: TP Chemical technology
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/58024/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19443994.2014.910139

Membrane distillation (MD) is a thermal-driven membrane separation process which recently garners interest from academic and industry due to its low energy requirements and the ability to integrate with renewable energy. In this work, two different additives, i.e. polyethersulfone (PES) and ethylene...