RT Journal Article
T1 Heat and mass transfer in vacuum membrane distillation
A1 Mengual Cabezón, Juan Ignacio
A1 Khayet Souhaimi, Mohamed
A1 Godino Gómez, María Paz
AB In the membrane distillation (MD) literature, the heat transfer coefficients of the boundary layers are usually estimated from well known heat transfer empirical correlations developed for non-porous and rigid heat exchangers. A difference between the mechanism of heat transfer in MD systems, which is coupled with transmembrane mass transfer, and the mechanism of heat transfer in "pure" heat exchangers is expected to exist. Vacuum membrane distillation has been experimentally studied in a capillary membrane module and the heat transfer coefficients have been evaluated in both the lumen and the shell side of the membrane module. A critical review of the most frequently used heat transfer empirical correlations in MD systems is presented. Finally, the experimental results obtained in this paper are compared to those of literature, in order to test their applicability in membrane distillation systems.
PB Elsevier
SN 0017-9310
YR 2004
FD 2004-02-04
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/51013
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/51013
LA eng
NO © 2003 Elsevier Ltd. Economical support from the CICYT is acknowledged.
NO CICYT
DS Docta Complutense
RD 5 abr 2025