Membrane Distillation Systems
A special issue of Membranes (ISSN 2077-0375). This special issue belongs to the section "Membrane Processing and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 July 2022) | Viewed by 4252
Special Issue Editors
2. KA.CARE Energy Research and Innovation Center at Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Interests: desalination; heat and mass transfer; evaporation and condensation; power systems
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Interests: renewable energy and environmental technologies’ development and implementation, including applications in agriculture and food processing; water processing powered by renewable energy (solar photovoltaic and wind) and other energy sources; development and application of microgrids; development of systems for power supply based on the organic Rankine cycle (ORC) and on biofuels’ deployment for power production
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Interests: innovative desalination processes; membrane fouling; renewable energy; desalination economics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Desalination of brackish and sea waters has become the main source for supplying potable water in various countries, including Saudi Arabia. The total desalination capacity worldwide is expected to grow significantly during the next few years. However, conventional desalination technologies suffer from major limitations, including their low energy efficiency, low recovery ratio, and the environmental impacts associated with brine discharge. Membrane distillation (MD) is an emerging process that has several advantages, including low operating pressures and temperatures which are lower than those used in conventional desalination; it is also not highly affected by high salinity feeds while producing very high permeate quality. Additionally, MD has great potential to be integrated with conventional desalination technologies to increase the overall performance of the coupled system and reduce the amount of discharged brines. Despite these appealing features, the MD industrial commercialization appears to be hindered and limited due to some technical barriers. Examples of these barriers are the process low recovery ratio, the high specific energy consumption, the fouling phenomenon, and the loss of the membrane hydrophobicity character.
This Special Issue will focus on Membrane distillation systems and highlight several aspects of the MD process, including those related to MD systems performance improvement, design, implementation, and operation under various conditions, renewable energy and MD integration, MD industrial commercialization, and MD economics. The Special Issue welcomes both original contributions and reviews related to MD systems and their use, mainly for desalination and water purification but also for other applications including brine treatment, volatile organics removal, and aqueous solutions concentration in food industries.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jamel Orfi
Prof. Dr. Georgios Papadakis
Prof. Dr. Noreddine Ghaffour
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy and MD systems integration
- Industrial applications of MD
- Energy efficiency in MD systems
- Hybridization of MD with other desalination processes
- Cost analysis in MD
- Sustainable desalination
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