Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1. Introduction to Membrane Distillation
(Young Moo Lee, Department of Energy Engineering, College of Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea)

Chapter 2. Properties and Fabrication Methods of Membranes for Membrane Distillation
(Sang Hyun Park and Young Moo Lee, Department of Energy Engineering, College of Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea)

Chapter 3. Polymeric Membranes for Membrane Distillation
(Sang Hyun Park and Young Moo Lee, Department of Energy Engineering, College of Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea)

Chapter 4. Ceramic Membranes for Membrane Distillation
(Chia-Chieh Ko, Kuo-Liang Chuang, Yi-Rui Chen, Chien-Hua Chen and Kuo-lun Tung, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, and others)

Chapter 5. Recent Progress in the Preparation and Modification of Omniphobic Membranes for Membrane Distillation
(Minwei Yao, Leonard D. Tijing, Myoung Jun Park, Yun Chul Woo, June-Seok Choi and Ho Kyong Shon, Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, and others)

Chapter 6. Use of Antiscalants in Membrane Distillation
(Navya Thomas, Nurshaun Sreedhar and Hassan A. Arafat, Center for Membranes and Advanced Water Technology, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE)

Chapter 7. Membrane Modules for Membrane Distillation
(Aamer Ali and Morten Lykkegaard Christensen, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark)

Chapter 8. Configuration of Membrane Distillation
(Francesca Macedonio and Enrico Drioli, Institute on Membrane Technology, University of Calabria, Italy, and others)

Chapter 9. Hybrid Configuration of Membrane Distillation: Vacuum Multi-Effect Membrane Distillation
(Jehad A. Kharraz, Muhammad Usman Farid, David von Eiff, Yonggang Gao, Zhiwei Shi and Alicia Kyoungjin An, Water and Membrane Technologies Laboratory, School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China, and others)

Chapter 10. Hybrid Configuration of Membrane Distillation: Pressure-Retarded Osmosis and Reverse Osmosis with Membrane Distillation
(Ji Hoon Kim, Barrer Centre, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK)

Chapter 11. Membrane Distillation Powered by Solar Thermal Energy: Pilot Projects
(J. A. Andrés-Mañas, A. Ruiz-Aguirre and G. Zaragoza, Universidad de Almería, La Cañada de San Urbano, Almería, Spain, and others)

Chapter 12. Economic Analysis of Membrane Distillation
(Mikel C. Duke and Xing Yang, Institute for Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cities, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia)

Chapter 13. Perspectives in Membrane Distillation
(Francesca Macedonio and Enrico Drioli, Institute on Membrane Technology, University of Calabria, Italy, and others)

Index