Study on an advanced adsorption desalination cycle with evaporator–condenser heat recovery circuit
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ArticleKAUST Grant Number
R265-000-286-597Date
2011-01Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/599788
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This paper presents the results of an investigation on the efficacy of a silica gel-water based advanced adsorption desalination (AD) cycle with internal heat recovery between the condenser and the evaporator. A mathematical model of the AD cycle was developed and the performance data were compared with the experimental results. The advanced AD cycle is able to produce the specific daily water production (SDWP) of 9.24 m3/tonne of silica gel per day at 70 °C hot water inlet temperature while the corresponding performance ratio (PR) is comparatively high at 0.77. It is found that the cycle can be operational at 50 °C hot water temperature with SDWP 4.3. The SDWP of the advanced cycle is almost twice that of the conventional AD cycle. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Citation
Thu K, Saha BB, Chakraborty A, Chun WG, Ng KC (2011) Study on an advanced adsorption desalination cycle with evaporator–condenser heat recovery circuit. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 54: 43–51. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2010.09.065.Sponsors
The authors' gratefully acknowledge the financial support given by grants (No. R33-2009-000-101660) from the World Class University (WCU) Project of the National Research Foundation, (R265-000-286-597) from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and (R265-000-287-305) from ASTAR.Publisher
Elsevier BVae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2010.09.065