A new vacuum membrane distillation system using an aspirator: concept modeling and optimization

The aim of this study is to validate and optimize a new concept of implementing an aspirator as the vacuum generator for a vacuum membrane distillation (VMD) setup. Numerical models are developed for the aspirator, and its interconnectivity with the VMD chamber is demonstrated. A correlation to esti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Swaminathan, Jaichander, Lienhard, John H., Arafat, Hassan
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Format: Article
Published: Desalination Publications 2019
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/121570