A Novel Technique In Water Treatment Using Membrane Distillation Process

Abstract

A technique which can be adapted effectively for water treatment or water desalination in industrial applications is the Distillation done by Membrane Distillation (MD) process, due to its lower potential energy consumption and simplicity. The improvements are made on MD has been experimentally tested to the desalination process. The efficiency of the membrane is tested and this process can be employed to the arid areas where the fresh water sources and electric power is low. The experiment was handled by varying the inlet permeate concentration and the flow rate of the salt in the feed. An analysis of the changes in various parameters such as the temperatures of permeate (outlet) and product, flow rate of the product, permeate flux, pH, conductivity was made. The goal of this work is to exploit the usage of suitable membrane for a sustainable water recovery from a wastewater source.