Numerical simulation of heat and mass transfer in direct membrane distillation in a hollow fiber module with laminar flow

• Main Authors: Yu, Hui, Yang, Xing, Wang, Rong, Fane, Anthony Gordon
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Environmental engineering::Water treatment
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/100778; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/10026
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The heat and mass transfer processes in direct contact membrane distillation (MD) under laminar flow conditions have been analyzed by computational fluid dynamics (CFD). A two-dimensional heat transfer model was developed by coupling the latent heat, which is generated during the MD process, into th...