How heat and mass recovery strategies impact the performance of adsorption desalination plant: Theory and experiments

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 147-153

  Wang, Xiaolin ^a   Chakarborty, Anutosh ^a   Ng, Kim Choon ^a   Saha, Bidyut Baran ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; DESALINATION; POTABLE WATER; WASTE HEAT UTILIZATION;

ADSORPTION DESALINATION; DAILY WATER PRODUCTION; MASS RECOVERY; WATER PRODUCTION;

INDUSTRIAL PLANTS;

EID: 33845746304     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: 15210537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457630601023625     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Al-Wazzan, Y., and Al-Modaf, F., Seawater Desalination in Kuwait Using Multistage Flash Evaporation Technology-Historical Overview, Desalination, vol. 134, pp. 257-267, 2001.
2. Al-Shammiri, M., and Satar, M., Multi-Effect Distillation Plants: State of the Art, Desalination, vol. 126, pp. 45-59, 1999.
3. Amjad, Z., Reverse Osmosis: Membrane Technology, Water Chemistry, and Industrial Applications, Chapman & Hall, International Thomson Publishing, New York, 1993.
4. Awerbuch, L., May, S., Soo-Hoo, R., and Van Dermast, V., Hybrid Desalting Systems, Desalination, vol. 76, pp. 189-197, 1989.
5. EI-Sayed, E., Ebrahim, S., Ai-Saffa, A., and Abdeljawad, M., Pilot Study of MSF-RO Hybrid Systems, Desalination, vol. 120, pp. 121-128, 1998.
6. Hummel, R. L., Solar Distillation with Economies of Scale, Innovation and Optimization, Desalination, vol. 134, pp. 159-171, 2001.
7. Ehrenman, G., From Sea to Sink, Mechanical Engineering, vol. 126, no. 10, pp. 38-43, 2004.
8. Broughton, D. B., Continuous Desalination Process, USPO 4,447,329, May 8, 1984.
9. Zejli, D., Benchrifa, R., Bennouna, A., and Bouhelal, O. K., A Solar Adsorption Desalination Device: First Simulation Results, Desalination, vol. 168, pp. 127-135, 2004.
10. Al-Kharabsheh, S., and Goswami, D. Y., Theoretical Analysis of a Water Desalination System Using Low-Grade Solar Heat, Journal of Solar Energy Engineering,Transactions of the ASME, vol. 126, no. 2, pp. 774-780, 2004.
11. Wang, X. L., and Ng, K. C., Experimental Investigation of an Adsorption Desalination Plant Using Low-Temperature Waste Heat, Applied Thermal Engineering, vol. 25, pp. 2780-2789, 2005.
12. Waste Heat Adsorption Chiller-Function, HIJC USA, Inc., P.O. Box 820307, Houston, Texas 77282-0307, USA. Available at: http://www.adsorptionchiller. bigstep.com/homepage.html. Accessed October 2004.
13. Wang, R. Z., Performance Improvement of Adsorption Cooling by Heat and Mass Recovery Operation, International Journal of Refrigeration, vol. 24, no. 7, pp. 602-611, 2001.
14. Liu, Y. L., Wang, R. Z., and Xia, Z. Z., Experimental Performance of a Silica Gel-Water Adsorption Chiller, Applied Thermal Engineering, vol. 25, pp. 359-375, 2005.
15. Amar, N. B., Sun, L. M., and Meunier, F., Numerical Analysis of Adsorptive Temperature Wave Regenerative Heat Pump, Applied Thermal Engineering, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 405-418, 1996.
16. Ng, K. C., Gordon, J. M., Chua, H. T., and Anutosh, C., Electro-Adsorption Chiller: A Miniaturized Cooling Cycle with Applications from Microelectronics to Conventional Air-Conditioning, USPO no. 6,434,955, August 2002.
17. Ng, K. C., Chua, H. T., Wang, X. L., Kashiwagi, T., and Saha, B. B., Prototype Testing of a Novel Four-Bed Regenerative Silica Gel-Water Adsorption Chiller, Proceedings of International Congress on Refrigeration, Washington D.C., USA, 2003.