Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
Volume 29, Issue 28, Pages 41941-41952Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-15783-5
Keywords
Membrane distillation (MD); Direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD); Polarisation effects; Heat and mass transfer; Liquid desiccant air-conditioning (LDAC); Liquid desiccant regeneration
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- Vietnam National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED) [105.08-2019.08]
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This study assessed the regeneration of liquid desiccant LiCl solution by pilot direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) using computer simulation. The results showed that the pilot DCMD process under counter-current flow is superior to that under cocurrent flow in terms of thermal efficiency and LiCl concentration enrichment. The feed inlet temperature, LiCl concentration, and membrane leaf length were found to have significant impacts on the process performance in the pilot DCMD regeneration of LiCl solution under counter-current flow.
Membrane distillation (MD) has been increasingly explored for treatment of various hyper saline waters, including lithium chloride (LiCl) solutions used in liquid desiccant air-conditioning (LDAC) systems. In this study, the regeneration of liquid desiccant LiCl solution by a pilot direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) process is assessed using computer simulation. Unlike previous experimental investigations, the simulation allows to incorporate both temperature and concentration polarisation effects in the analysis of heat and mass transfer through the membrane, thus enabling the systematic assessment of the pilot DCMD regeneration of the LiCl solution. The simulation results demonstrate distinctive profiles of water flux, thermal efficiency, and LiCl concentration along the membrane under cocurrent and counter-current flow modes, and the pilot DCMD process under counter-current flow is superior to that under cocurrent flow regarding the process thermal efficiency and LiCl concentration enrichment. Moreover, for the pilot DCMD regeneration of LiCl solution under the counter-current flow, the feed inlet temperature, LiCl concentration, and especially the membrane leaf length exert profound impacts on the process performance: the process water flux halves from 12 to 6 L/(m(2)center dot h) whilst thermal efficiency decreases by 20% from 0.46 to 0.37 when the membrane leaf length increases from 0.5 to 1.5 m.
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