Journal
TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIA
Volume 138, Issue 2, Pages 265-284Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-021-01603-4
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Microporous and porous membranes; Gas and vapor permeation; Tortuosity and porosity; Viscous flow; lattice Boltzmann
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- University of Luxembourg
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Membrane distillation is a desalination technique that uses a membrane to separate potable water from sea or brackish water. Mass transport processes through the membrane are commonly described using the dusty gas model. Porosity, tortuosity, and permeability of the membrane are computed and compared to theoretical models.
Membrane distillation (MD) is a desalination technique that uses a membrane to thermally separate potable water from sea or brackish water. The mass transport processes through the membrane are commonly described by the dusty gas model. These processes are modeled assuming uniform, ideally cylindrical capillaries and are adjusted for the membrane geometry by including porosity and tortuosity. The tortuosity is usually set to 2 or is used as an adjusting parameter to fit theoretical models to experimentally measured data. In this work, ptychographic X-ray computed tomography is employed to map the three-dimensional (3D) structure of three commercial state-of-the-art PTFE membranes in MD. The porosity, tortuosity and permeability (viscous flow coefficient) of the samples are computed using the lattice Boltzmann method. The intrinsic permeability is compared to the dusty gas model and an apparent permeability is proposed which is corrected for Knudsen slip effects at the membrane structure.
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