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Industrial Water Desalination by Vacuum Multi‐Effect Membrane Distillation
Author(s) -
Braun Gerhard,
Kleffner Christine
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
chemie ingenieur technik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.365
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1522-2640
pISSN - 0009-286X
DOI - 10.1002/cite.201900080
Subject(s) - desalination , economic shortage , membrane distillation , water scarcity , waste management , agriculture , distillation , environmental science , work (physics) , environmental engineering , population , petroleum industry , engineering , membrane , chemistry , biology , mechanical engineering , ecology , biochemistry , linguistics , philosophy , demography , organic chemistry , government (linguistics) , sociology
Abstract Water shortage and a rising water demand are prevalent issues on the political agenda worldwide. Available water resources must not only be provided to ensure a domestic and drinking water supply for a steadily increasing population but also for the growing industrial and agricultural sectors. This work outlines how the use of the innovative vacuum multi‐effect membrane distillation contributes to improve the water management efficiency in the following key industry sectors: desalination, drinking water and beverage industry, pharmaceutical, agro and chemical as well as oil and gas industry.