Calibration and analysis of a direct contact membrane distillation model using Monte Carlo filtering

Membrane distillation is an emerging technology to separate non-volatile components from an aqueous feed stream. Mathematical models have proven useful to pursue breakthrough in the economics of the technology and for further improvement through module design and operational optimization. However, before this can be done, all of the resistances in the system must be identified correctly and the model must be carefully calibrated to ensure its predictive power.