Research Article

Experimental Investigation of Heat and Mass Transfer in Tubular Membrane Distillation Module for Desalination

Table 1

Heat transfer coefficients of the feed boundary layer.

𝑇 𝑓 𝐶 Pure waterAqueous NaCl, mg/L
100030005000

R e 𝑓 407,0437,4387,4467,384
508,2969,1239,0889,052
609,35510,25910,22510,212
7010,79411,01511,00010,994

𝑓 4015,8109,1718,7148,120
5016,7689,8679,4598,853
6017,50110,2959,9449,328
7018,40510,60510,2839,648