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Low-Cost Desalination Unit: Direct Contact Membrane Distillation, Meghan Herbert-Walters, Aubrey Martin, Lauren Scolese, Tina Trinh
Low-Cost Desalination Unit: Direct Contact Membrane Distillation, Meghan Herbert-Walters, Aubrey Martin, Lauren Scolese, Tina Trinh
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According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 783 million people do not have access to a reliable clean water source. With this many people in the world without access to clean water, a solution to this problem is highly essential. The objective of this project is to create a low-cost compact desalination unit that can be used to turn contaminated water into pure drinking. For our design, a direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) approach was used. The DCMD system allows only for the evaporated feed water to pass through the membrane and therefore causes an increase …