Investigation of two phase liquid jet ejector with simultaneous air and water suction in fresh water distillation system

M. Hassani and R. Kouhikamali

Energy, 2024, vol. 301, issue C

Abstract: Liquid jet ejectors can be utilized to generate vacuum in thermal desalinations, power plant applications and chemical industries. Liquid jet ejectors have no moving parts and have the advantage of reliability and low maintenance cost and also entrainment of non-condensable gas and brine simultaneously relative to pumps. The aim of this work is to model a liquid jet ejector with mixed air and water suction, applicable in fresh water distillers. The design is numerically simulated by two-phase Eulerian model and Realizable k-ε turbulence model. The results of the numerical model of liquid jet-air ejector are compared with experimental data and good agreement is achieved with deviation of about 7.4 % and 11.2 % for flow ratio and maximum discharge pressure respectively. In order to study robustness of the design, the value of suction entrainment and motive load of ejector is studied for different values of brine and suction pressure (8–12.5 kPa) of a 12 m3/day fresh water distiller. The results show constant air entrainment in off-design condition. In addition, mixing behavior and hydrodynamics of the flow in such ejector is studied by the parameters of pressure, velocity, flow and turbulent intensity distribution and compared with the ejector with air-only suction.

Keywords: Ejector; Liquid jet ejector; Fresh water distillation; Air suction; Brine suction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2024.131662

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