Water desalination using carbon-nanotube-enhanced membrane distillation

Ken Gethard, Ornthida Sae-Khow, Somenath Mitra

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Abstract

Carbon nanotube (CNT) enhanced membrane distillation is presented for water desalination. It is demonstrated that the immobilization of the CNTs in the pores of a hydrophobic membrane favorably alters the water-membrane interactions to promote vapor permeability while preventing liquid penetration into the membrane pores. For a salt concentration of 34 000 mg L -1 and at 80 °C, the nanotube incorporation led to 1.85 and 15 times increase in flux and salt reduction, respectively.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)110-114
Number of pages5
JournalACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
Volume3
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 23 2011

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Materials Science

Keywords

  • Carbone nanotubes
  • Desalination
  • Membrane distillation
  • Membrane separation

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