Journal
DESALINATION AND WATER TREATMENT
Volume 57, Issue 22, Pages 10052-10076Publisher
DESALINATION PUBL
DOI: 10.1080/19443994.2015.1040271
Keywords
Mitigation; Scaling; Fouling; Membrane distillation
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- National Centre of Excellence in Desalination Australia (NCEDA)
- Australian Government through Water for the Future initiative
- Industrial Facilities & Infrastructure Research Program - Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of Korean government [13IFIP-B065893-01]
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Membrane distillation (MD) has been developed for the past 40years. Nevertheless, only in recent times, MD technology has shown substantial progress, including the development of a few commercial systems. In this study, a comprehensive review is carried out on the application of MD for the production of drinking water. Based on a broad perspective, this review describes the applications of MD for drinking water production, its advantages, and limitations. Specifically, this review focuses on the scaling and organic fouling phenomena in MD for drinking water production as one of the major challenge to MD implementation. The fouling and wetting phenomena in MD is discussed in detail as well as fouling detection methods, the influence of feed solution characteristics, and operational parameters on MD fouling and related areas requiring future investigations. The study highlights a number of approaches on fouling reduction in MD.
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