期刊
JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE
卷 462, 期 -, 页码 96-111出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2014.03.020
关键词
Salinity gradient energy; Reverse electrodialysis (RED); Pressure drop; Cell-pair number; Net power density
资金
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (FCT), Lisbon (Portugal) [Pest-C/EQB/LA0006/2013]
- FCT [SFRH/BD/68649/2010]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BD/68649/2010] Funding Source: FCT
Reverse electrodialysis (RED) is a sustainable technology for salinity gradient energy harvesting. In order to make the process economically competitive, it is desirable to operate it at the highest possible net power density, which depends on the RED stack geometry and on the pressure drop along its pathways and, thus, on the energy spent for solutions pumping. The fluid flow in RED stacks generally occurs in rectangular compartment channels, equipped with spacers. The effects of spacers design and properties have been studied extensively in recent years. However, the other possible causes for a RED stack and their relative impact on the process performance have not yet been systematically studied. In this study the partial pressure drops in (1) distribution ducts, (2) branches, (3) beams, (4) due to sudden section expansion between the beam and the compartment channel and (5) in the compartment channel were taken into consideration. A model for the total pressure drop inside a RED stack, with a parallel fluid flow distribution through the compartments, is proposed and experimentally validated for lab-scale RED stacks with sheet flow spacers and compared with an open channel (spacer-free) design. The importance of each partial pressure drop was then evaluated quantitatively through model simulations for industrial-scale stacks with an increasing number of cell pairs It was found that the net power density decreases when the cell-pair number increases, since the partial pressure drop in the branches becomes dominant. Moreover, the possible reasons for a non-uniform fluid flow distribution are discussed, thus making the proposed model useful for planning and/or optimization of RED stacks design. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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