Research Papers by David M. Warsinger

• Balancing leads to 50% higher GOR than equal inlet flow rates in DCMD. • DCMD balancing achieved by setting heat capacity rate ratio to one at end • Proposed method deviates by about 5% from absolute maximum GOR at high salinity. • Real-time balancing most useful for variations in inlet salinity 1.

Membrane distillation (MD) has become an area of rapidly increasing research and development since the 1990s, providing a potentially cost effective thermally-driven desalination technology when paired with waste heat, solar thermal or geothermal heat sources. One principal challenge for MD is scali