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						Zhaoguang XU, Yanqiu PAN( ), Yalan YU | 
					 
															
						| School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116012, China | 
					 
										
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													     		                            						                            																	    Abstract  A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation that coupled an established heat and mass transfer model was carried out for the air-gap membrane distillation (AGMD) of NaCl solution to predict mass and heat behaviors of the process. The effects of temperature and flowrate on fluxes were first simulated and compared with available experimental data to verify the approach. The profiles of temperature, temperature polarization factor, and mass flux adjacent to the tubular carbon membrane surface were then examined under different feed Reynolds number in the computational domain. Results show that the temperature polarization phenomena can be reduced, and mass flux can be enhanced with increase in the feed Reynolds number. 
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															| Keywords 
																																																				membrane distillation  
																		  																																				computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation  
																		  																																				temperature polarization  
																		  																																				carbon membrane  
																																			  
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																																Corresponding Author(s):
																PAN Yanqiu,Email:yqpan@dlut.edu.cn   
																													     		
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																																																													Issue Date: 05 September 2009
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