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A Review of Membrane Processes and Renewable Energies For Desalination
A Review of Membrane Processes and Renewable Energies For Desalination
process)
was developed recently by TNO (Netherlands)
for desalination of seawater by air gap MD
carried out in a counter current flow configura-
tion [25]. Cold seawater flows through a
condenser with non-permeable well wettable
evaporator in counter current mode. The wall of
the evaporator consists of a microporous hydro-
phobic membrane through which vapour can
diffuse and by which liquid water (with dissolved
salts) is retained. The condenser and the mem-
brane can either be tubular or flat sheets with
spacers between the sheets. Meindersma et al.
[26] compared the energy and investment costs of
the Memstill