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Vanneste, Johan; Bush, John A.; Hickenbottom, Kerri L.; Marks, Christopher A.; Jassby, David
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States). Funding organisation: USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) (United States)2017
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States). Funding organisation: USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) (United States)2017
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[en] Development and selection of membranes for membrane distillation (MD) could be accelerated if all performance-determining characteristics of the membrane could be obtained during MD operation without the need to recur to specialized or cumbersome porosity or thermal conductivity measurement techniques. By redefining the thermal efficiency, the Schofield method could be adapted to describe the flux without prior knowledge of membrane porosity, thickness, or thermal conductivity. A total of 17 commercially available membranes were analyzed in terms of flux and thermal efficiency to assess their suitability for application in MD. The thermal-efficiency based model described the flux with an average %RMSE of 4.5%, which was in the same range as the standard deviation on the measured flux. The redefinition of the thermal efficiency also enabled MD to be used as a novel thermal conductivity measurement device for thin porous hydrophobic films that cannot be measured with the conventional laser flash diffusivity technique.
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NREL/JA--5500-68956; OSTIID--1413181; AC36-08GO28308; Available from http://www.osti.gov/pages/biblio/1413181; DOE Accepted Manuscript full text, or the publishers Best Available Version will be available free of charge after the embargo period; Country of input: United States
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Journal of Membrane Science; ISSN 0376-7388; ; v. 548(C); p. 298-308
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