Integrated diesel powered greenhouse-MSF desalination system for desert application

Moustafa, S.; Al-Shami, H.; Jarrar, D.; El-Mansy, H.

doi:10.1016/0167-5826(81)90026-7

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“…Each correlation can give roughly the expected amount of distillate water/kVA of the engine capacity. The correlations reveal a second order dependency on engine kVA rather than the linear correlation derived by Mustafa et al [14] and the rate of the distillate water is larger than that derived by them (M d = 0.0095 + 0.0044 kVA in kg/s). This may be attributed to the improvements on technologies of diesel engine in recent years.…”

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“…His thermal analysis revealed that a gas turbine of 32 MW can produce around 11750 m 3 /d. Moustafa et al [14] introduced the concept of a total energy, diesel powered greenhouse-desalination system that offers a reasonable approach to agricultural production in remote arid areas. The electric generator is driven by a diesel engine to provide the electric energy requirements for the integrated complex.…”

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The design of a small-scale multi-stage desalination plant driven by the exhaust of diesel generators

Jammoul¹,

Elsamni²

2015

Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements XVII

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The present study provides an energy-saving design of a desalination plant that uses the waste heat of the exhaust of a diesel generator. The proposed model consists of a multistage flash (MSF) desalination unit in which the sea water is heated by the flue gases instead of steam. A mathematical model is derived to design the entire plant including the waste heat recovery heat exchanger and the MSF plant. The model is flexibly designed in order to deal with wide range of diesel generators rates and any number of stages of MSF. A database of diesel generator sets are imported including temperature of exhaust, gas flow rates and the back pressures for each set. Two test cases are carried out with two different salinity levels and diesel generator rates, results show that the amount of distilled water in kg/s can be correlated to the rate of diesel generator according to the second order polynomial: 0.54 + 4.1 x 10-3 (kVA) + 4.1 x 10-6 (kVA) 2 in the case of brackish water and 0.36 + 2.7 x 10-3 (kVA) + 3.1 x 10-6 (kVA) 2 in the case of seawater. The survey of power generation in Lebanon reveals that the waste heat from a diesel generator can be utilized to get around 100 million m 3 of distillate water usable for drinking and for domestic use. This quantity can provide fresh water for more than 300,000 person/year. The performance of proposed plant is assessed during summer and winter conditions and the model can deal with any salinity ranges.

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