Research Article
Performance Investigation of O-Ring Vacuum Membrane Distillation Module for Water Desalination
Table 7
Comparison of the permeate fluxes at different operating conditions in MD for different NaCl solutions.
| MD type | Membrane | (μm) | (°C) | Vacuum (kPa) | (mL/s) | (g/L) | Flux (kg/m2 h) | Ref. |
| VMD | PTFE | 0.1 | 65 | 100 | 2280 | 35 | 66 | [19] | VMD | PP 50/200 | 0.1 | 90 | 87 | 5 cm/s | 3.5 | 15 | [29] | VMD | PES/TiO2NTs | — | 65 | 70 | 11 | 35 | 5.5 | [34] | VMD | PP | 0.2 | 55 | 97 | 30 | 100 | 14.4 | [35] | VMD | PP | 0.074 | 60 | 93 | 42 | 35 | 3 | [36] | VMD | PVDF | 0.2 | 60 | 14.5 | 25 | 3.5 | 4 | [37] | VMD | PVDF | 0.22 | 65 | 97 | 30.6 | 35 | 43.8 | This study | VMD | PTFE | 0.22 | 65 | 97 | 30.6 | 35 | 52.6 | This study |
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