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Principles and advancements of air gap membrane distillation

  • Sarita Kalla

    Sarita Kalla is currently a PhD scholar under the supervision of Dr. Sushant Upadhyaya and Dr. Kailash Singh, Chemical Engineering Department, MNIT Jaipur, India. She completed her Bachelor degree from University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India, and Masters degree from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. The major area of her research is membrane separation and process modeling and simulation. Currently, she is working on the separation of azeotropic mixture using air gap membrane distillation (AGMD).

    , Sushant Upadhyaya

    Sushant Upadhyaya holds BTech, MTech and PhD degrees in Chemical Engineering. He has been working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at MNIT Jaipur since 2008. The major areas of his research are wastewater treatment, polymer process modeling, membrane separation, transport phenomena, modeling, and simulation. He has published over 90 papers in various journals/conferences, guided 10 Masters theses, and taken up several research projects.

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    and Kailash Singh

    Kailash Singh holds BTech, MTech and PhD degrees in Chemical Engineering. He is working as Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at MNIT Jaipur and has over 21 years of teaching experience. The major areas of his research are modeling and simulation, process control, and separation processes. He has published over 100 papers in various journals/conferences and guided 15 Masters and 6 PhD theses.

Abstract

In recent years, membrane distillation (MD) has evidently emerged as one of the promising separation processes, with increasing areas of application including but not limited to desalination, pharmaceutical and textile wastewater purification, food processing, concentration of aqueous solution, breaking azeotropic mixtures, and extraction of volatile organic compounds. Primarily, MD has been categorized on the basis of vapor collection and condensation arrangement methods. Among the various categories, air gap membrane distillation (AGMD), in which an air gap is maintained across the membrane and the cooling plate, turns out to be an important and efficient process. Lately, AGMD has received significant attention of researchers around the world which motivates the present work. This paper aims to review the work done so far concerning the AGMD in order to provide a holistic view that covers the principles and applications of AGMD, effect of process parameters, membrane parameters, mathematical modeling, fouling, temperature and concentration polarization, types of membrane module, energy consumption, recent developments in AGMD process, cost estimation, and heat integration with AGMD. To the best of our knowledge, the present work is the first attempt to exhaustively review the AGMD process.

About the authors

Sarita Kalla

Sarita Kalla is currently a PhD scholar under the supervision of Dr. Sushant Upadhyaya and Dr. Kailash Singh, Chemical Engineering Department, MNIT Jaipur, India. She completed her Bachelor degree from University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India, and Masters degree from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. The major area of her research is membrane separation and process modeling and simulation. Currently, she is working on the separation of azeotropic mixture using air gap membrane distillation (AGMD).

Sushant Upadhyaya

Sushant Upadhyaya holds BTech, MTech and PhD degrees in Chemical Engineering. He has been working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at MNIT Jaipur since 2008. The major areas of his research are wastewater treatment, polymer process modeling, membrane separation, transport phenomena, modeling, and simulation. He has published over 90 papers in various journals/conferences, guided 10 Masters theses, and taken up several research projects.

Kailash Singh

Kailash Singh holds BTech, MTech and PhD degrees in Chemical Engineering. He is working as Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at MNIT Jaipur and has over 21 years of teaching experience. The major areas of his research are modeling and simulation, process control, and separation processes. He has published over 100 papers in various journals/conferences and guided 15 Masters and 6 PhD theses.

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Received: 2017-11-21
Accepted: 2018-06-15
Published Online: 2018-08-10
Published in Print: 2019-10-25

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