Membrane distillation crystallization (MDC) is a promising hybrid separation technology that can play an important role in desalination, mineral recovery from liquid solution as well carbon dioxide fixation. MDC combines membrane and crystallizer into one integrated unit allows excellent of clean water high purity salt highly concentrated salts (i.e., brine), which otherwise detrimental when di...

New membrane distillation configurations and a new membrane module were investigated to improve water desalination. The performances of three hydrophobic microporous membranes were evaluated under vacuum enhanced direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) with a turbulent flow regime and with a feed water temperature of only 40 ◦C. The new configurations provide reduced temperature polarizatio...