Direct osmosis

The paper deals with a novel solar powered water desalination technique based on direct osmosis process. The separation is driven by natural osmosis, which does not require external pumping energy as in the reverse osmosis process. Therefore, the specific power consumption of the desalination proces

This paper presents an experimental procedure to analyse the heat and mass transfer phenomena involved in osmotic membrane distillation and to measure the related parameters. Use is made of a module containing a few membrane sheets in co-current flow configuration. Whatever the inlet feed and extrac