Energy and economic analysis of a hollow fiber membrane-based desalination system driven by solar energy

Zhang, Li‐Zhi; Li, Guopei

doi:10.1016/j.desal.2016.11.002

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“…Besides the thermodynamic primacy of MED over the MSF process, there is a substantial increase in heat transfer area in MED, resulting in a very low temperature drop in the range of 1.5-2.5 • C in each stage. This enables the inclusion of a higher number of stages (10-16) even with a maximum brine temperature of as low as 70 • C, and this therefore results in a very high gain ratio (product to steam flow rates), which leads to a clear cost reduction [68,69]. There are various ways of supplying the feed seawater to the evaporators, namely forward, backward, parallel, and mixed feed systems [65,70].…”

Section: Multi-effect Distillation (Med)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Recent Developments in Solar Thermal Desalination Technologies: A Review

Ullah

Rasul

2018

Energies

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Fresh water resources are depleting rapidly as the water demand around the world continues to increase. Fresh water resources are also not equally distributed geographically worldwide. The best way to tackle this situation is to use solar energy for desalination to not only cater for the water needs of humanity, but also to offset some detrimental environmental effects of desalination. A comprehensive review of the latest literature on various desalination technologies utilizing solar energy is presented here. This paper also highlights the environmental impacts of desalination technologies along with an economic analysis and cost comparison of conventional desalination methods with different solar energy based technologies. This review is part of an investigation into integration of solar thermal desalination into existing grid infrastructure in the Australian context.

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Section: Multi-effect Distillation (Med)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Recent Developments in Solar Thermal Desalination Technologies: A Review

Ullah

Rasul

2018

Energies

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“…People struggle to balance decreasing per capita water supplies with rising population demands (Shatat et al, 2013). Water spans over 71.0% of the earth's surface, and 97.5% is sea or brackish water, which is salty (Zhang and Li, 2017). Due to ongoing regional drought and migration of cities to coastal cities, water demand is expected to exceed supply by 56% by 2025.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Conventional desalting systems such as electrodialysis (ED), reverse osmosis (RO), and distillation have several drawbacks, which consume substantial amounts of capital and energy R BIOSYSTEMS ENGINEERING besides regular maintenance (Yang et al, 2005;Welgemoed, 2006;Wang et al, 2012). Different desalination plants include thermal processes with phase changes such as Multi-Stage Flash (MSF) (El-Dessouky et al, 1996) and Multi-Effect Distillation (MED) (Sayyaadi and Saffari, 2010), membrane processes including RO (Gabelich et al, 2007), hybrid methods with phase changes and membranes (Zhang and Li, 2017) have been developed to meet the demand for freshwater. However, such systems have economic limitations in remote areas, which require a considerable amount of energy as thermal steam (for MSF and MED) or electric power to maintain high mechanical pressure (for RO).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Simulation of Desalination of Salt Water Comprising Polypropylene Hollow Fibre Membranes

Elewa

Ramadan

El-Emam³

et al. 2023

Misr Journal of Agricultural Engineering

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The problem of desalination systems using advanced hollow fibre (HF) membranes were thoroughly investigated. Humidification air is cooled by heat transfer in the dehumidification chamber, which condenses the water vapour and produces high-quality, fresh drinking water. A mathematical approach was conducted, and a simulation programme (model) was developed for the system. The performance of the HF membranes was assessed using different mass flows of salt water and air to optimise the system's operating performance. An experimental setup was prepared to test the effect of changing the operating parameters on the produced fresh water's flux. The produced flux ranged from 2.36-10.6 kg h -1 m -2 at 40-70 o C, respectively. The comparisons between the simulation results and the experimental setup were in good agreement, and the water quality analysis showed that the obtained values were within the World Health Organization's drinking water guidelines.

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“…Many factors are affecting the water purification; energy and cost are the important factors for all the process. Solar distillation is a cost-effective method for producing pure water by consuming the solar energy [1]. This necessitates an energy input, which can be from heat, electricity or solar radiation.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Influence of Nano Phase Change Materials on the Desalination Performance of Double Slope Solar Still

Roumeissa¹

2022

European Journal of Formal Sciences and Engineering

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Time management and control are crucial for project success, and it has known an increasing interest by researchers around the world since the appearance of project management and until now. The aim of the present paper is to provide a comprehensive overview of researches in this field. A bibliometric analysis of researches in time management and control published in the Web of Science (WoS) during 2012-2021 was conducted in order to find the most influential publications in this field, as well as, the countries that contribute the most to these researches, and the most used key words. The VOS Viewer was used for mapping and visualizing bibliometric networks. The results show an increased trend of publications in this field. And that the major contributors to researches in Time Management and Control are People's Republic of China, the United States of America, and England. Moreover, Labadie (2004) was the most cited author. Also, the results show 3 main levels of keywords, the first was related to time management in general, the second was related to the models and systems using and the third concerning the tools, the methods used in time management and control. These findings could help researchers to understand more the topic of time management and control, and it opens up the scope of view to conduct studies in related fields.

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Energy and economic analysis of a hollow fiber membrane-based desalination system driven by solar energy

Cited by 62 publications

References 39 publications

Recent Developments in Solar Thermal Desalination Technologies: A Review

Recent Developments in Solar Thermal Desalination Technologies: A Review

Simulation of Desalination of Salt Water Comprising Polypropylene Hollow Fibre Membranes

Influence of Nano Phase Change Materials on the Desalination Performance of Double Slope Solar Still

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