Fouling Control Strategies for High Concentrated Liquid Desiccants Concentrating Using Membrane Distillation.

Air conditioning using a liquid desiccant (LD) is an energy-efficient air purification and cooling system. However, high energy is required to concentrate or regenerate the LD. This study aimed to investigate the characteristics of membrane fouling in more detail and determine control strategies for LD concentrating using membrane distillation (MD).

Engineered multi-scale roughness of carbon nanofiller-embedded 3D printed spacers for membrane distillation.

Membrane distillation (MD) transfers heat and mass simultaneously through a hydrophobic membrane. Hence, it is sensitive to both concentration and temperature polarisation (CP and TP) effects. In this study, we fabricated feed spacers to improve MD efficiency by alleviating the polarisation effects.