Emerging investigator series: engineering membrane distillation with nanofabrication: design, performance and mechanisms

Critical review of membrane distillation performance criteria

The number of published papers about membrane distillation (MD) has been growing exponentially and many evaluation and performance criteria are used to measure it; but, there is no established tradition or evaluation standard for them. This makes the evaluations difficult to compare, or even incomplete. This paper presents therefore a comprehensive critical review and clarification of the major...

Progress on Membrane Distillation and Related Technologies

Optimization based conceptual design of reactive distillation for selectivity engineering

This work presents some representative reactive distillation (RD) models to obtain attainable region for multi-component reaction systems when feed contains significant amount of inerts in it. One can achieve maximum selectivity for a quantitative conversion unlike conventional reactors with semibatch reactive rectification (SRR) as the best RD configuration when the inert is more volatile than...

Membrane Engineering: Future Perspectives

Membrane Engineering for Today and for Tomorrow