Improvements of a hollow fiber reverse osmosis desalination model: Analysis of numerical results

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 88, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 789-802

  Marcovecchio, Marian G ^a   Scenna, Nicolás J ^a   Aguirre, Pío A ^a  

^a El INGAR Instituto de Desarollo y Diseno   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Hollow fiber module; Mathematical modeling; Reverse osmosis

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION CHANGE; CONCENTRATION POLARIZATION; DESIGN VARIABLES; DISCRETIZATIONS; ERGUN EQUATION; FIBER BUNDLES; FILM THEORY; FINITE DIFFERENCE; GRID POINTS; HAGEN-POISEUILLE; HOLLOW FIBER; HOLLOW FIBER MODULE; INPUT VARIABLES; KIMURA-SOURIRAJAN MODEL; MASS BALANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; OUTPUT VARIABLES; PERMEATE FLOW RATES; PERMEATE SALINITY; PROCESS PARAMETERS; REVERSE OSMOSIS DESALINATION; RIGOROUS MODEL; SALT CONCENTRATION; SALT FLUX; SHELL-SIDE; TRANSMEMBRANES; TRANSPORT PHENOMENA;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; DESALINATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WATER FILTRATION;

FIBERS;

EID: 77953536795     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2009.12.003     Document Type: Article

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