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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ (US);
Applied Membrane Technology, Inc., Minnetonka, MN (US);
Kamalesh Sirkar, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Dhananjay Singh, Kearny, NJ (US);
Lin Li, Kearny, NJ (US);
Thomas J. McEvoy, Tofte, MN (US);
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ (US);
Applied Membrane Technology, Inc., Minnetonka, MN (US);
Abstract
Exemplary embodiments in desalination by direct contact membrane distillation present a cylindrical cross-flow module containing high-flux composite hydrophobic hollow fiber membranes. The present embodiments are directed to a model that has been developed to describe the observed water production rates of such devices in multiple brine feed introduction configurations. The model describes the observed water vapor production rates for different feed brine temperatures at various feed brine flow rates. The model flux predictions have been explored over a range of hollow fiber lengths to compare the present results with those obtained earlier from rectangular modules which had significantly shorter hollow fibers.