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Desalination Of Brine And Produced Water By Membrane Distillation At Lower As Well As Higher Temperatures And Pressures, Dhananjay Singh
Desalination Of Brine And Produced Water By Membrane Distillation At Lower As Well As Higher Temperatures And Pressures, Dhananjay Singh
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Direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD)-based desalination process is a thermally- driven separation process where a hydrophobic microporous membrane separates a hot brine feed and a cold distillate which condenses the water vapor from the hot brine passing through the membrane pores. So far, DCMD has been explored for hot brines and other aqueous solutions below 100oC. For feed solutions above 100oC, DCMD has an extra advantage over other conventional separation processes like reverse osmosis (RO) which requires cooling of the feed solution costing additional energy; further, RO can not utilize the heat available in the feed solution. Produced water obtained …