US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on May 20 for "Thermoelectric air gap membrane distillation system and process" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,837, issued on May 20, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Thermoelectric air gap membrane distillation system and process" was invented by Dahiru Umar Lawal (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Wail Sulaiman Fallatah (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Isam Hasan Aljundi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Mohamed Abdelkarim Antar (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distillation apparatus having a hot liquid block, a thermoelectric module (TEM), a condensation surface, a feed liquid chamber having a feed chamber inlet, a feed chamber outlet, and a membrane disposed on at least one side of th...