Performance, energy and economic investigation of airgap membrane distillation system: An experimental and numerical investigation
Airgap membrane distillation (AGMD) is an efficient configuration employed widely for the solar membrane distillation desalination process. In the present work, 1-D Knudsen and molecular transport (KMT) model has been developed to investigate the performance of the flat sheet PVDF membrane. A new so...
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| author | Gopi, G. Vasanthkumar, M. Arthanareeswaran, G. Ismail, A. F. Thuyavan, Y. Lukka Goh, P. S. Matsuura, T. |
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| description | Airgap membrane distillation (AGMD) is an efficient configuration employed widely for the solar membrane distillation desalination process. In the present work, 1-D Knudsen and molecular transport (KMT) model has been developed to investigate the performance of the flat sheet PVDF membrane. A new solution algorithm for the co-current and counter-current flow regime has been designed to solve the heat and mass transfer equations iteratively for a single-stage AGMD module. The feed temperature, feed flow rate, airgap size, salinity, membrane porosity and module length were varied and compared with experimental results. The increase in feed temperature from 40 °C to 80 °C resulted in 10.38 times increase in flux for co-current flow and 11.05 times for counter-current flow. The maximum permeate flux at 80 °C was 8.668 kg/m2h and 8.871 kg/m2h for the co-current and counter-current processes, respectively. Optimizing the feed temperature, flow rate, and membrane length using RSM suggests 80 °C, 1.528 LPM and 10 m as the optimum operating condition. An AGMD module of size 0.8 m width and 10 m length under the optimum operating condition exhibited a freshwater yield of 8.73 kg/h by consuming 24.98 kWh/m3 of specific energy, and the water production cost would be around $2.25/m3. |
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| spelling | utm.eprints-1065572024-07-09T06:55:30Z http://eprints.utm.my/106557/ Performance, energy and economic investigation of airgap membrane distillation system: An experimental and numerical investigation Gopi, G. Vasanthkumar, M. Arthanareeswaran, G. Ismail, A. F. Thuyavan, Y. Lukka Goh, P. S. Matsuura, T. TP Chemical technology Airgap membrane distillation (AGMD) is an efficient configuration employed widely for the solar membrane distillation desalination process. In the present work, 1-D Knudsen and molecular transport (KMT) model has been developed to investigate the performance of the flat sheet PVDF membrane. A new solution algorithm for the co-current and counter-current flow regime has been designed to solve the heat and mass transfer equations iteratively for a single-stage AGMD module. The feed temperature, feed flow rate, airgap size, salinity, membrane porosity and module length were varied and compared with experimental results. The increase in feed temperature from 40 °C to 80 °C resulted in 10.38 times increase in flux for co-current flow and 11.05 times for counter-current flow. The maximum permeate flux at 80 °C was 8.668 kg/m2h and 8.871 kg/m2h for the co-current and counter-current processes, respectively. Optimizing the feed temperature, flow rate, and membrane length using RSM suggests 80 °C, 1.528 LPM and 10 m as the optimum operating condition. An AGMD module of size 0.8 m width and 10 m length under the optimum operating condition exhibited a freshwater yield of 8.73 kg/h by consuming 24.98 kWh/m3 of specific energy, and the water production cost would be around $2.25/m3. Elsevier B.V. 2023 Article PeerReviewed Gopi, G. and Vasanthkumar, M. and Arthanareeswaran, G. and Ismail, A. F. and Thuyavan, Y. Lukka and Goh, P. S. and Matsuura, T. (2023) Performance, energy and economic investigation of airgap membrane distillation system: An experimental and numerical investigation. Desalination, 551 (NA). NA-NA. ISSN 0011-9164 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2023.116400 DOI : 10.1016/j.desal.2023.116400 |
| spellingShingle | TP Chemical technology Gopi, G. Vasanthkumar, M. Arthanareeswaran, G. Ismail, A. F. Thuyavan, Y. Lukka Goh, P. S. Matsuura, T. Performance, energy and economic investigation of airgap membrane distillation system: An experimental and numerical investigation |
| title | Performance, energy and economic investigation of airgap membrane distillation system: An experimental and numerical investigation |
| title_full | Performance, energy and economic investigation of airgap membrane distillation system: An experimental and numerical investigation |
| title_fullStr | Performance, energy and economic investigation of airgap membrane distillation system: An experimental and numerical investigation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Performance, energy and economic investigation of airgap membrane distillation system: An experimental and numerical investigation |
| title_short | Performance, energy and economic investigation of airgap membrane distillation system: An experimental and numerical investigation |
| title_sort | performance energy and economic investigation of airgap membrane distillation system an experimental and numerical investigation |
| topic | TP Chemical technology |
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