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Royal Society of Chemistry, Environmental Science. Water Research && Technology, 5(3), p. 930-939

DOI: 10.1039/c7ew00085e

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Reversing membrane wetting in membrane distillation: comparing dryout to backwashing with pressurized air

Journal article published in 2017 by David M. Warsinger ORCID, Amelia Servi ORCID, Grace B. Connors, Musthafa O. Mavukkandy ORCID, Hassan A. Arafat ORCID, Karen K. Gleason ORCID, John H. Lienhard V. ORCID
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Abstract

Wetting of saline water through membrane distillation pores can be reversed with either drying out the membrane, or more effectively, by backwashing with pressurized air to force out wetting feed water.