TY - JOUR
T1 - Freezing-melting process and desalination
T2 - I. review of the state-of-the-art
AU - Rahman, Mohammad Shafiur
AU - Ahmed, Mushtaque
AU - Chen, X. Dong
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - A thorough literature survey was conducted on the freezing-melting (FM) process for desalination. Collected literatures were studied and analyzed to identify the current state-of-the-art of the FM process, and its practical limitations. The main advantages of the FM process are the requirement of low energy and low temperature operation compared to thermal desalination. Other advantages are less scaling or fouling and fewer corrosion problems, ability to use inexpensive plastics or low-cost material, and absence of pretreatment. The three broad classes of FM process are: direct contact freezing, indirect contact freezing, and vacuum freezing. Different types of processing options in each class are discussed with their operating principles and merits and downsides of each process.
AB - A thorough literature survey was conducted on the freezing-melting (FM) process for desalination. Collected literatures were studied and analyzed to identify the current state-of-the-art of the FM process, and its practical limitations. The main advantages of the FM process are the requirement of low energy and low temperature operation compared to thermal desalination. Other advantages are less scaling or fouling and fewer corrosion problems, ability to use inexpensive plastics or low-cost material, and absence of pretreatment. The three broad classes of FM process are: direct contact freezing, indirect contact freezing, and vacuum freezing. Different types of processing options in each class are discussed with their operating principles and merits and downsides of each process.
KW - Desalination
KW - Direct contact freezing
KW - Eutectic freezing
KW - FM
KW - Freezing-melting
KW - Indirect contact freezing
KW - Vacuum freezing
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U2 - 10.1080/15422110600671734
DO - 10.1080/15422110600671734
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33750101344
SN - 1542-2119
VL - 35
SP - 59
EP - 96
JO - Separation and Purification Reviews
JF - Separation and Purification Reviews
IS - 2
ER -