Boosted Multi-Effect Distillation for sensible low-grade heat sources: A comparison with feed pre-heating Multi-Effect Distillation

Christ, Alexander; Regenauer-Lieb, Klaus; Chua, Hui Tong

doi:10.1016/j.desal.2014.12.047

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“…To produce such metrics, an estimate of the annual cash flows is necessary; hence estimates of the initial investment, as well as annual operating expenses are required. The following builds upon the method for estimating capital costs previously reported in [21,25].…”

Section: Developing a Cost Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Reputable data of EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) costs is available for conventional MED and MSF desalination plants from the GWI Desalting Plant Inventory [46], and an estimate of total plant capital cost as a function of production capacity can be interpolated from such data [21,25]. For this analysis, IDA census data [46] were deemed suitable for the purposes of a generalised analysis.…”

Section: Capital Costmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For this purpose, in this article, it is determined in a generalised manner whether the FB-MED and B-MED processes can be economically superior to the comparable MED process, despite the additional capital investment required. We had recently shown that, in terms of low-grade sensible heat applications, the B-MED process is economically superior to the feed preheating MED configuration [25], and hence the latter will not be compared in this article.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, in the absence of medium pressure (MP) steam and when the low grade sensible heat source (hot liquid medium) is the only available heat source, the conventional MED technology is a superior option. In our previous works [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28] it has been shown that in case of using low grade sensible heat source instead of steam, both B-MED and FB-MED processes have higher thermal performance as compared to the conventional MED process, being the benchmark. It has been shown that the improved FB-MED process is capable of up to 50% greater production rates than conventional MED [21], whilst having comparable auxiliary power consumption.…”

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“…thermodynamically and economically superior to the conventional MED scheme that employs one or more feed pre-heaters to consume the waste sensible heat [30].…”

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With the change in climate patterns, rapid industrialization, and population growth, the increasing water and energy demand became a major concern in the past decades. Desalination has been touted as the answer to the global water crisis, due to its capability in producing high‐quality fresh water from saline water. The continual research and innovations in the desalination field have resulted in the commercialization of large‐scale desalination in many water scarce regions. In the energetic context, all desalination processes are energy intensive. With the necessity to make desalination a more affordable and sustainable process, the energy efficiency of desalination is becoming an important topic. Herein, it is aimed to provide insights into the recent efforts and strategies established to tackle the energy‐related issues of both, thermal‐based and membrane‐based desalination processes. Depending on the principle of various commercial and emerging desalination processes, the directions of energy efficiency improvements, which include operating condition optimization, high‐performance material development, and renewable energy exploitation are discussed. The ideas and strategies reviewed herein, whether in their implementation or theoretical stage, are expected to provide insights into the possible improvement for application in commercial desalination plants.

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Boosted Multi-Effect Distillation for sensible low-grade heat sources: A comparison with feed pre-heating Multi-Effect Distillation

Cited by 39 publications

References 46 publications

Thermo-economic analysis of two novel low grade sensible heat driven desalination processes

Thermo-economic analysis of two novel low grade sensible heat driven desalination processes

New MED based desalination process for low grade waste heat

Energy Efficient Seawater Desalination: Strategies and Opportunities

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