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US 12,508,548 B2Granted
Thermocouple-based distillation module and method
AssigneesKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology, University of Jeddah
InventorsKhaled bin Bandar Al Saud, Ahmad Alsaadi, Noreddine Ghaffour
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Abstract
A membrane distillation (MD) module includes a first MD sub-module including a first thermocouple; a second MD sub-module including a second thermocouple; and a distillation membrane sandwiched between the first MD sub-module and the second MD sub-module. A hot chamber of the first MD sub-module is closed by the distillation membrane, and a cold chamber of the second MD sub-module is closed by the distillation membrane.
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A membrane distillation (MD) module comprising:
- a first MD sub-module including a first thermocouple, the first thermocouple being fully located within the first MD sub-module;
- a second MD sub-module including a second thermocouple, the second thermocouple being fully located within the second MD sub-module;
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- a distillation membrane sandwiched between the first MD sub-module and the second MD sub-module,
- wherein a hot chamber of the first MD sub-module is closed by the distillation membrane, and
- wherein a cold chamber of the second MD sub-module is closed by the distillation membrane.
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A membrane distillation (MD) system comprising:
- plural MD sub-modules, each MD sub-module including a corresponding thermocouple, the corresponding thermocouple being fully located within the MD sub-module;
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- plural distillation membranes interleaved with the plural MD sub-modules so that each distillation membrane of the plural distillation membranes is sandwiched between a hot chamber of a given MD sub-module and a cold chamber of an adjacent MD sub-module of the plural MD sub-modules,
- wherein the hot chamber is directly facing a hot part of a corresponding thermocouple of the given MD sub-module, and
- wherein the cold chamber is directly facing a cold part of a corresponding thermocouple of the adjacent MD sub-module.
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