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Membrane Water Treatment Volume 2, Number 3, July 2011 , pages 159-173 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/mwt.2011.2.3.159 |
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Heat and mass transfer analysis in air gap membrane distillation process for desalination |
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Bhausaheb L. Pangarkar and Mukund G. Sane
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| Abstract | ||
| The air gap membrane distillation (AGMD) process was applied for water desalination. The main objective of the present work was to study the heat and mass transfer mechanism of the process. The experiments were performed on a flat sheet module using aqueous NaCl solutions as a feed. The membrane employed was hydrophobic PTFE of pore size 0.22 | ||
| Key Words | ||
| AGMD; desalination; heat transfer coefficient; mass transfer coefficient; temperature polarization coefficient | ||
| Address | ||
| Bhausaheb L. Pangarkar:Sir Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology, University of Pune, Chincholi, Nashik, 422 101, India Mukund G. Sane:National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India | ||
