Victoria University
Theoretical and experimental investigation of membrane distillation
Abstract
dc:description.abstractInvented in the 1960s, membrane distillation is an emerging technology for water treatment attracting more attention since 1980s. There are four configurations of membrane distillations including air gap membrane distillation (AGMD), direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD), sweep gas membrane distillation (SGMD), and vacuum membrane distillation (VMD). DCMD and vacuum enhanced DCMD (VEDCMD), a variant of DCMD, were employed in this research. The objective of this study is to develop design tools for scale up of DCMD by analysing the characteristics of membranes suitable for DCMD, influences of membrane structure (hollow fibre membrane) and pressure (compressible PTFE membrane) on membrane performance, and modelling the energy efficiency of DCMD with varied process parameters.
Degree
thesis:*- Name dc:type.qualificationname
- phd
- Level dc:type.qualificationlevel
- doctoral
- Grantor dc:publisher.institution
- Victoria University
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2011
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
-
- Zhang, Jianhua
Subjects
dc:subject × 2Rights
- Language dc:language
- en