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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2018
Applicant:
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Somenath Mitra, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Sagar Roy, Newark, NJ (US);
Assignee:
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01D 61/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B01D 61/364 (2013.01); B01D 61/366 (2013.01); B01D 2311/04 (2013.01); B01D 2311/103 (2013.01); B01D 2311/13 (2013.01); B01D 2311/2607 (2013.01); B01D 2311/2615 (2013.01); B01D 2313/22 (2013.01); B01D 2313/365 (2013.01);
Abstract
Radiative heating and radiative feed modification systems and methods using microwave, radio frequency, magnetic field and ultrasound in membrane separation processes including membrane distillation (MD), reverse osmosis, forward osmosis and pervaporation are disclosed. Membrane distillation systems include at least one MD module, the MD module having at least one membrane, a feed inlet operable to receive a feed media and a feed outlet, and a radiative energy source operable to apply radiation to a feed media entering the feed inlet.