Evaluating Critical Influencing Factors of Desalination by Membrane Distillation Process-Using Multi-Criteria Decision-Making.

ABSTRACT: Water desalination by membrane distillation (MD) can be affected by a wide range of operating parameters. The present work uses combinational approach of Analytical Hierarch process (AHP) and Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy process (Fuzzy-AHP) to identify the most important parameters in the MD desalination. Five process parameters and key-performance indicators, named derivable outputs (DOs), are considered, along with the critical factors affecting these DOs in the current study. The DOs and the critical influencing factors (CIFs) are selected based on their experimental feasibility. The investigation involves five DOs, which are liquid entry pressure, thermal power consumption, permeate quality, permeate flux, and pumping (feed circulation) power. A total of twenty-five critical influencing

SUBMITTER: Anqi AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7996794 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature