Journal
ENERGY
Volume 148, Issue -, Pages 1060-1068Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2018.02.027
Keywords
Direct contact membrane distillation; Modelling; Heat recovery; Multi-objective optimization
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51706076, 51736004]
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Direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) is an alternative technology to utilize the low temperature waste heat source for water supply. In this paper, we proposed a modified model characterizing the heat and mass transfer in the DCMD, which was validated by a great accordance with the experiment data. For evaluating the performance of a DCMD system with heat recovery, gain output ration (GOR) and mass recovery rate are two main criteria, however, they could not achieve their maximum values simultaneously. To achieve such a compromise, a multi-objective optimization considering both the water recovery rate and GOR was conducted. Besides, the GOR. mass recovery rate and thermal efficiency under single-objective optimization methods were calculated and compared. Compared to the results under the maximum GOR, the increase magnitude of water mass recovery rate under the multi-objective optimization override the decrease magnitude of GOR. Compared with the performance under the single-objective optimization for transmembrane water flux, the transmembrane water flux under the multi-objective optimization was reduced by only 6.7%, but the GOR is increased by 83.2%. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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