Vacuum membrane distillation for deep seawater: experiments and theory

This paper investigates the feasibility and potential of vacuum membrane distillation (VMD) for concentrating deep seawater (DSW) of 34 g/kg and its reverse osmosis (RO) brine of 62 g/kg. In this work, a small pilot-scale VMD system was developed and distillate fluxes were measured for feed solution...