DESALAB
Other · 2015–2020
About this facility
of Membrane Desalination Test Facilities formed by: a) Bench-Scale Unit for Testing Membrane the Facility: Distillation applications in Air-Gap, Permeate-Gap and Direct Contact Configurations; c) Bench-Scale Unit for Flat Sheet Membrane Distillation Testing, permitting adjustable MD channel configuration to all channel variants (PGMD, AGMD, DCMD, VMD, V-AGMD); d) Bench-Scale Unit for Tests with 2- stage Forward Osmosis and Pressure-Retarded Osmosis (PRO), with three different units that can be coupled in different ways between them: (i) forward osmosis; (ii) reverse osmosis; (iii) microfiltration.
Sectors and technologies
Thermal Desalination, brine concentration and thermal wastewater treatment. Evaluation of new membranes.
Technical specifications
12 parameters| Facility type | Other |
|---|---|
| Year of construction | 2015–2020 |
| Isobaric membrane distillation membrane surface | 250 cm² |
| Hot-side tank | 80 L |
| Hot-side electric heater | 3 kW, up to 90 °C |
| Cold-side water tank | 80 L |
| Cold-side chiller | 800 W at 20 °C |
| MD membrane configurations | Direct-contact, air-gap and permeate-gap |
| Forward osmosis modules | Two plate-and-frame modules, series or parallel |
| PRO draw-side pump | 3 L/min, up to 17 bar |
| PRO cell maximum pressure | 15 bar |
| PRO cell effective membrane area | 100 cm² per cell |
Available services
- Solar Thermal Desalination by Membrane Distillation
- Innovative membrane desalination technologies (MD, FO)
- Characterisation and Testing of Membranes for Water treatment
Contact & links
Juan Antonio Andrés Mañas (juanantonio.andres@psa.es); Alba Ruiz Aguirre (aruiz@psa.es)