Membrane distillation against a pressure difference

A Comprehensive Review of Membrane Distillation and Osmotic Distillation in Agro-Food Applications

Membrane distillation (MD) and osmotic distillation (OD) are emerging athermal processing techniques of great interest in agro-food production where the most part of products is sensitive to thermal treatments. With respect to conventional methods, MD and OD are competitive alternatives, able to work in an environmental-friendly and cost-efficient way, for preserving the nutritional and sensori...

Desalination by Membrane Distillation

Hybrid membrane-distillation processes

This work focuses on modelling, simulation and process analysis of hybrid membrane separations namely on distillation and pervaporation. Such hybrid process can be applied for the separation of multicomponent azeotropic mixtures without the use of entrainer. Its application is illustrated by the separation of a non-ideal ternary mixture of acetone, isopropanol and water. The extended abstract d...

Progress on Membrane Distillation and Related Technologies

Vacuum membrane distillation on a microfluidic chip.

A multilayered microfluidic chip used for vacuum membrane distillation is designed, fabricated and tested by rectification of a water-methanol mixture.