Direct contact membrane distillation system for waste heat recovery: Modelling and multi-objective optimization

Rui Long, Xiaotian Lai, Zhichun Liu and Wei Liu

Energy, 2018, vol. 148, issue C, 1060-1068

Abstract: 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%.

Keywords: Direct contact membrane distillation; Modelling; Heat recovery; Multi-objective optimization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2018.02.027

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