Modelling of vacuum membrane distillation

Abstract A new method of measuring the properties of hollow fibre membranes for modelling purposes was developed. Measuring the gas permeability as a function of membrane length and extrapolating to zero length provided enough membrane material information for modelling the flux. These values resulted in the predicted Vacuum Membrane Distillation (VMD) flux within the experimental errors (±5%) for different velocities. The predicted results at different temperatures were mostly within the experimental variation range. However, the error (

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