Vapor transfer is an important phenomenon in various thermally driven membrane processes such as membrane distillation (MD), membrane evaporation and membrane condensation. In this study, we explore the mass transfer phenomena in sweeping gas membrane distillation (SGMD) by systematically investigating the effects of operational parameters on the process performance. It is found that mass trans...

In this work, sweeping gas membrane distillation (SGMD) process was used for concentrating of glucose syrup. The main questions in this work include: is SGMD process practical for concentrating of glucose solution prior the fermentation step in bioethanol process?. and are the commercially available hydrophobic membranes sufficient enough to develop the SGMD process in pilot scale for this issu...

Abstract This work presents an experimental validation of MD unit coupled with a sweeping gas membrane (SGMD) using solar energy distillation energy. station is installed at the University Kairouan in Tunisia. SGMD least used (MD) configuration, and it very expensive to build. completely remove solutions containing non-volatile compounds such as salts recover only high-purity water. A theoretic...