Engineering Water and Solute Dynamics and Maximal Use of CNT Surface Area for Efficient Water Desalination.

ABSTRACT: While polymer-based membranes and the consistent plants and elements have long been considered and optimized, there are only few studies on optimization of the new generation of carbon-based porous membranes for water desalination. By modeling the elements and their corresponding parameters in a vertical configuration via COMSOL Multiphysics software, an experimental setup was modified that contained various bare and carbon nanotube (CNT)-covered microprocessed porous membranes in parallel and in series. Several design parameters such as inlet pressure, length of outlet, vertical distance of the parallel membranes, and horizontal distances of the series membranes were optimized. Taking advantage of the uttermost surface area of CNTs and the engineered particle trajectory, almost 90% NaCl r

SUBMITTER: Kazemi AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6648526 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature