Journal
JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE
Volume 627, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2021.119228
Keywords
Membrane distillation; Multi-stage; Techno-economic analysis; Cost optimization; Process design and operation
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Funding
- National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) - U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Advanced Manufacturing Office [DE-FOA-0001905]
- National Science Foundation [CBET-1554117]
- U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) [DE-EE0008397]
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Estimating the costs and performance of emerging separation technologies is challenging, and this work develops a cost-optimization model to minimize the levelized cost of water production. Balancing operational costs and capital costs in multi-stage system designs is crucial, and sensitivity analysis suggests that improvements in membrane parameters and module designs could result in modest cost reductions.
Estimating the costs and performance of emerging separation technologies is technically challenging because of the complex design space and the interdependence between system and module-level design decisions. This work develops a process-based cost-optimization model that minimizes the levelized cost of water (LCOW) produced using multi-stage gap MD. The model fully captures solution properties, heat transport, and mass transport relationships within each membrane module, specifies the optimal multi-stage configuration of modules in series, and determines cost-optimal operation of each stage and the system as a whole as a function of gap type, the number of stages, feed conditions, and desired water recovery. We estimate that the LCOW for recovering 50% of a 100 g/L feed using conductive gap multi-stage MD is approximately 6.5 $ per m3 of product water. Costoptimal designs of multi-stage systems balance operational costs (primarily energy) and capital costs (primarily membrane). This balance results in stages having a different design and operation across the system (e.g. initial stages operating with chilling and heating and end stages using only heating). Sensitivity analysis on the model results suggests that improving membrane parameters and module designs may provide modest cost reductions of <15%.
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