US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on March 25 for "Thermal vapor compression membrane distillation hybrid using vapor selective membranes" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,550, issued on March 25, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Thermal vapor compression membrane distillation hybrid using vapor selective membranes" was invented by David Warsinger (West Lafayette, Ind.), Abhimanyu Das (West Lafayette, Ind.), Hamid Fattahijuybari (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Harsharaj Parmar (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A desalination system, including a membrane distillation portion, a solar power concentration portion, and a thermal vapor compression portion operationally connected to the membrane distillation portion and to the solar power concentration portion. The membra...