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Alkhudhiri, Abdullah
Bin Darwish, Nawaf

Hakami, Mohammed Wali

Abdullah, AbdelKader
Alsadun, Ahmed
Abu Homod, Hosam
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2020-09-28Submitted Date
2020-08-30Permanent link to this record
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Several Membrane Distillation (MD) technologies have been employed to remove boron from various concentrations. In this study, Vacuum Membrane Distillation (VMD), Permeate Gap Membrane Distillation (PGMD), and Air Gap Membrane Distillation (AGMD) are examined to evaluate their effectiveness when combined with several boron concentrations (1.5, 7 and 30 ppm) and operating parameters (circulation rate from 0.9 L/min to 5 L/min, feed temperature from 40 to 70 °C, and pH from 3–11). Those concentrations of boron are selected on the basis of the concentration of boron in the permeate side of the single-pass reverse osmosis (RO) system, Arabian Gulf, and contaminated brackish water. Moreover, synthetic seawater is treated to assess MD technologies’ effectiveness. A high removal efficiency of boron is accomplished by MD. AGMD, PGMD, and VMD are promising methods for the desalination industry. AGMD shows excellent boron removal, which was above 99% with a wide ranging concentration. In addition, VMD demonstrates good permeate flux compared to the other MD technologies, which were about 5.8 kg/m2·h for synthetic seawater. Furthermore, there is no noteworthy influence of the pH value on the boron removal efficiency.Citation
Alkhudhiri, A., Bin Darwish, N., Hakami, M. W., Abdullah, A., Alsadun, A., & Abu Homod, H. (2020). Boron Removal by Membrane Distillation: A Comparison Study. Membranes, 10(10), 263. doi:10.3390/membranes10100263Sponsors
This work was financially supported by the Energy and Water Research Institute / KACST, Saudi Arabia.The authors would like to thank the King Abdullah Institute for Nanotechnology and the King Saud University for the electron microscopy images. The authors also would like to thank Abdullah Alshammari, Mussa Al Eid, and Mohammad Alkhalaf, for the AAS and ICP analysis. The authors would like to thank Nora Alkhudhiri, for the proof reading of the manuscript.
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MembranesAdditional Links
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0375/10/10/263ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.3390/membranes10100263
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