화학공학소재연구정보센터
홈 로그인 로그아웃 연락처 사이트맵
Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.20, No.4, 2174-2183, July, 2014
DOI10.1016/j.jiec.2013.09.048  Export Citation
Experiments and modeling of a vacuum membrane distillation for high saline water
Gayathri Naidu, Yongjun Choi1, Sanghyun Jeong, Tae Mun Hwang2, and Saravanamuthu Vigneswaran†
  • Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007 Australia
  • 1University of Science and Technology, 113 Gwahangno, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon-si, Republic of Korea
  • 2Korea Institute of Construction Technology, Gyeonggi-do 411-712, Republic of Korea
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A modified design vacuum membrane distillation (VMD) system with high saline water was evaluated using different operating conditions (sustainable low feed temperature and flow velocity). At high salinity, a permeate flux of 13.9 to 15.8 L m-2 h-1 was achieved. Increasing the salinity from 1 to 3 M NaCl reduced the permeate flux by 18-20%. An increase in bulk feed temperature (310.2-319.2 K) significantly increased the permeate flux by 64%. The increase in flow velocity (1.1 to 2.2 m s-1) in turn increased the permeate flux by 14-20%. Model fluxes predicted was a good fit to experimental fluxes (R2 ≥ 0.94).
Keywords:High salinity;Modeling;Vacuum membrane distillation
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