Status of membrane distillation for water and wastewater treatment—A review

Pangarkar, Bhausaheb L.; Sane, M. G.; Parjane, Saroj B.; Guddad, Mahendra

doi:10.1080/19443994.2013.808422

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“…In MD, a hydrophobic microporous membrane is used to facilitate the transport of water vapour through its pores. As a result, the MD process is more compact and has a smaller footprint than traditional thermal distillation processes [15,16]. Moreover, because water is transported through the membrane only in the vapour phase, in theory 100% or near complete rejection of ions and dissolved nonvolatile organics can be achieved.…”

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confidence: 91%

Treatment of RO brine from CSG produced water by spiral-wound air gap membrane distillation — A pilot study

Duong

Chivas

Nelemans³

et al. 2015

Desalination

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Brine management is a major bottleneck for coal seam gas (CSG) production in Australia. This study investigated the concentration of CSG reverse osmosis (RO) brine using a pilot membrane distillation (MD). The system was equipped with a novel spiral-wound air gap membrane distillation (AGMD) module. By operating the pilot MD system at low feed temperature and a small temperature gradient, a stable distillate production rate could be maintained. The resulting low permeate flux can be offset by a high packing density of the spiral-wound membrane module. Here, using a module with diameter, height, and total membrane surface area of 0.4 m, 0.5 m, and 7.2 m2, respectively, the pilot MD system sustainably achieved 80% water recovery and produced 10 L/h of distillate from CSG RO brine. Overall, 95% water recovery could be obtained from CSG produced water for beneficial uses by a combination of RO and AGMD without any observable membrane scaling. A preliminary thermal energy demand analysis suggests that if installed in New South Wales (Australia), 1 ha of flat-plate solar thermal collector arrays could provide sufficient thermal energy to treat 472 m3/day (2970 bbl/day) of CSG produced water using the proposed RO/AGMD treatment train. o An overall water recovery of 95% was achieved over a sustained period.o The precipitation of Si and Ca may lead to scaling in long term operation.o One ha of land can provide solar thermal for treating 118 m 3 /d of CSG RO brine.Abstract: Brine management is a major bottleneck for coal seam gas (CSG) production in Australia. This study investigated the concentration of CSG reverse osmosis (RO) brine using a pilot membrane distillation (MD). The system was equipped with a novel spiral-wound air gap membrane distillation (AGMD) module. By operating the pilot MD system at low feed temperature and a small temperature gradient, a stable distillate production rate could be maintained. The resulting low permeate flux can be offset by a high packing density of the spiralwound membrane module. Here, using a module with diameter, height, and total membrane surface area of 0.4 m, 0.5 m, and 7.2 m 2 , respectively, the pilot MD system sustainably achieved 80% water recovery and produced 10 L/h of distillate from CSG RO brine. Overall, 95% water recovery could be obtained from CSG produced water for beneficial uses by a combination of RO and AGMD without any observable membrane scaling. A preliminary thermal energy demand analysis suggests that if installed in New South Wales (Australia), one hectare of flat-plate solar thermal collector arrays could provide sufficient thermal energy to treat 472 m 3 /day (2970 bbl/day) of CSG produced water using the proposed RO/AGMD treatment train.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 91%

Treatment of RO brine from CSG produced water by spiral-wound air gap membrane distillation — A pilot study

Duong

Chivas

Nelemans³

et al. 2015

Desalination

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112

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“…Membrane distillation (MD) is an upcoming hybrid technology that has the ability to treat brine effluent via the combination of desalination and distillation processes (AlHathal Al-Anezi et al 2013;Pangarkar et al 2013). When compared to well-known commercial membrane technologies such as RO, MD offers the following benefits (Tijing et al 2014;Wang and Chung 2015;Thomas et al 2017):…”

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Computational and experimental study for the desalination of petrochemical industrial effluents using direct contact membrane distillation

2019

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The petrochemical, mining and power industries have reacted to the recent South African water crisis by focussing on improved brine treatment for water and salt recovery with the aim of achieving zero liquid effluent discharge. The purpose of this novel study was to compare experimentally obtained results from the treatment of synthetic NaCl solutions and petrochemical industrial brines such as spent ion exchange regenerant brines and reverse osmosis (RO) brines to the classical well-known Knudsen diffusion, molecular diffusion and transition predictive models. The predictive models were numerically solved using a developed mathematical algorithm that was coded using MATLAB ® software. The impact of experimentally varying the inlet feed temperature on process performance of the system is presented here and compared to simulated results. It was found that there was good agreement between the experimentally obtained results, for both the synthetic NaCl solution and the industrial brines. The mean average percentage error (MAPE) was found to be 7.9% for the synthetic NaCl solutions when compared to the Knudsen model. The Knudsen/molecular diffusion transition theoretical model best predicted the performance of the membrane for the industrial spent ion exchange regenerant brine with a mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of 13.3%. The Knudsen model best predicted the performance of the membrane (MAPE of 10.5%) for the industrial RO brine. Overall, the models were able to successfully predict the water flux and can be used as potential process design tools.

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“…1 It is a thermal-driven process, in which the membrane guarantees that only vapor/gas can transfer through the membrane. 2,3 Thus, it can offer high separation efficiency especially in desalination application (theoretically 100%). MD combined the traditional distillation and the membrane process, which enjoy numerous benefits in water treatment and desalination due to the low-energy requirement, low cost, and low-operational pressure.…”

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“…MD combined the traditional distillation and the membrane process, which enjoy numerous benefits in water treatment and desalination due to the low-energy requirement, low cost, and low-operational pressure. 2,4,5 However, hydrophobic membranes with desirable structure and properties were the biggest obstacle for MD application because of the membrane wetting and fouling issues, low water productivity, and short lifespan, especially when speaking to MD industrial extension. 6−10 Inspired by the natural hydrophobic/superhydrophobic surface like lotus leaves, gecko feet, and rose petals, the preparation of hydrophobic membranes with a biomimetic surface has became a growing research topic in recent years.…”

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Preparation of Interconnected Biomimetic Poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-chlorotrifluoroethylene) Hydrophobic Membrane by Tuning the Two-Stage Phase Inversion Process

Zheng

Wang²,

et al. 2016

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces

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A facile strategy was applied for poly(vinylidene fluoride-cochlorotrifluoroethylene) (PVDF-CTFE) hydrophobic membrane preparation by tuning the two-stage phase inversion process. The exposure stage was found to benefit the solid−liquid demixing process (gelation/crystallization) induced by the solvent evaporation and the subsequent phase inversion induced by immersion benefit the liquid−liquid demixing. It was confirmed that the electrospun nanostructure-like biomimetic surface and interconnected pore structure can be expected by controlling the exposure duration, and 300 s was considered as the inflection point of exposure duration for PVDF-CTFE membrane through which a tremendous variation would show. The micro/ nanohierarchical structure in the membrane surface owing to the crystallization of PVDF-CTFE copolymer was responsible for the improvement of membrane roughness and hydrophobicity. Meanwhile, the interconnected pore structure in both the surface and the cross-section, which were formed because of the crystallization process, offers more mass transfer passages and enhances the permeate flux. The membrane then showed excellent MD performance with high permeate flux, high salt rejection, and relatively high stability during a 48 h continuous DCMD operation, according to the morphology, pore structure, and properties, which can be a substitute for hydrophobic membrane application.

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Status of membrane distillation for water and wastewater treatment—A review

Cited by 68 publications

References 108 publications

Treatment of RO brine from CSG produced water by spiral-wound air gap membrane distillation — A pilot study

Treatment of RO brine from CSG produced water by spiral-wound air gap membrane distillation — A pilot study

Computational and experimental study for the desalination of petrochemical industrial effluents using direct contact membrane distillation

Preparation of Interconnected Biomimetic Poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-chlorotrifluoroethylene) Hydrophobic Membrane by Tuning the Two-Stage Phase Inversion Process

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