Recent advances in membrane distillation processes: Membrane development, configuration design and application exploring

Membrane distillation (MD) is a separation process based on the vapor transport across the hydrophobic microporous membrane driven by the vapor pressure gradient across the membrane. This process can be used for various applications such as seawater desalination, wastewater treatment, separation of volatile compounds, concentration of non-volatile compounds and processing of dairy fluids. Comparing with other separation processes, the MD process...