Desalination by solar heated membrane distillation

✍ Scribed by P.A. Hogan; Sudjito; A.G. Fane; G.L. Morrison

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 548 KB
• Volume: 81
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0011-9164
• DOI: 10.1016/0011-9164(91)85047-x

✦ Synopsis

This paper exammes the feasibility of a solar powered membrane distillanon plant for the supply of domestic drinking water in the arid/rural regions of Australia. The plant differs from conventional solar powered devices m its capacity to recover large propomons of the latent heat of vapourisation using conventional heat-exchange devices The plant has been designed and constructed using data obtamed from a computer simulation of the process. Prelimmary tests have shown the plant capable of achieving the required production capacity An economic sensmvity analysis has been used to select the optimum heat recovery.