Experimental and theoretical investigation of air gap membrane distillation process for water desalination

[Display omitted] •Better fundamental understanding of the factors affecting the AGMD process.•Permeate flux increased by about 3.8 fold and 30% with the increase of feed temperature and flow rate respectively.•The rejection factor was greater than 99.9%.•Optimization of AGMD performance by using de...

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