Numerical study on performance and efficiency of batch submerged vacuum membrane distillation for desalination

• Main Authors: Chang, Y. S., Ooi, B. S., Ahmad, A. L., Leo, C. P., Lau, W. J.
• Format: Article
• Published: Elsevier B.V. 2020
• Subjects: TP Chemical technology
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/93455/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cherd.2020.08.031

Harvesting clean water from seawater is widely studied in thermal-driven vacuum membrane distillation (VMD) application. Although the conventional VMD promotes excellent flux due to the deaeration by means of vacuum, the external heat supply of the system suffers the heat loss during pumping high fe...