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Direct contact membrane distillation system for waste heat recovery: Modelling and multi-objective optimization

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  • Long, Rui
  • Lai, Xiaotian
  • Liu, Zhichun
  • Liu, Wei

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Direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) is an alternative technology to utilize the low temperature waste heat source for water supply. In this paper, we proposed a modified model characterizing the heat and mass transfer in the DCMD, which was validated by a great accordance with the experiment data. For evaluating the performance of a DCMD system with heat recovery, gain output ration (GOR) and mass recovery rate are two main criteria, however, they could not achieve their maximum values simultaneously. To achieve such a compromise, a multi-objective optimization considering both the water recovery rate and GOR was conducted. Besides, the GOR, mass recovery rate and thermal efficiency under single-objective optimization methods were calculated and compared. Compared to the results under the maximum GOR, the increase magnitude of water mass recovery rate under the multi-objective optimization override the decrease magnitude of GOR. Compared with the performance under the single-objective optimization for transmembrane water flux, the transmembrane water flux under the multi-objective optimization was reduced by only 6.7%, but the GOR is increased by 83.2%.

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  • Long, Rui & Lai, Xiaotian & Liu, Zhichun & Liu, Wei, 2018. "Direct contact membrane distillation system for waste heat recovery: Modelling and multi-objective optimization," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 148(C), pages 1060-1068.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:148:y:2018:i:c:p:1060-1068
    DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2018.02.027
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