Membrane distillation (MD) process, which is a non-isothermal water treatment technology having high salinity, has received wide attention due to its higher production quality of permeate and relatively lower thermal requirement compared to other conv...
Membrane distillation (MD) process, which is a non-isothermal water treatment technology having high salinity, has received wide attention due to its higher production quality of permeate and relatively lower thermal requirement compared to other conventional methods. In this work, we synthesized graphene/ polyvinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene(PVDF-co-HFP) membranes by one-step electro spinning method and evaluated their desalination ability. In particular a two dimensional dynamic model was used to systematically examine the effect of graphene on the performance of air gap membrane distillation (AGMD) process. Moreover, we introduced the novel net water flux parameter considered the existence of graphene sheet in the polymer membrane nanocomposite to properly evaluate the graphene nanoparticle effect in AGMD system.