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MEMBRANES
卷 11, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/membranes11040252
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membrane distillation; hollow fiber membrane; polyvinylidene difluoride; hydrophobic treatment; long term operation; liquid entry pressure
This study investigates the long-term stability of a VMD system and finds that the liquid entry pressure is the most important factor influencing stability. Under certain conditions, the system can achieve a high vapor flux and salt retention rate.
Membrane distillation (MD) is a technology that can treat feed solutions with higher osmotic pressure, as well as produce high-purity water. However, the water production cost of the MD process is expensive. In this study, to decrease the water production cost, we attempted to evaluate the effect of membrane characteristics on the long-term stability of a vacuum MD (VMD) system. We fabricated four different types of polyvinylidene difluoride hollow fiber membranes, and operated a VMD system with 3.5 wt% NaCl aqueous solution at 65 degrees C as a feed under 11 kPa of air gap pressure. Consequently, in the proposed VMD system, it is found that the liquid entry pressure (LEP) is the most important factor. When LEP was higher than 0.37 MPa, the pilot-scale module was very stable for long-term operations, and the vapor flux was approximately 19.3 kg/m(2)center dot h with a total salt retention factor of over 99.9% during the 300-h operation.
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