Simulation of heat and mass transfer in a multi-effect distillation plant for seawater desalination

被引：22

作者：

Raach, Henning ^{[1
]}

Mitrovic, Jovan ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Gesamthsch Paderborn, Inst Energy & Proc Engn, D-33095 Paderborn, Germany

来源：

DESALINATION | 2007年 / 204卷 / 1-3期

关键词：

falling seawater film; condensation; evaporation; conjugate heat transfer; mass transfer; Nusselt;

D O I：

10.1016/j.desal.2006.04.037

中图分类号：

TQ [化学工业];

学科分类号：

0817 ;

摘要：

In the European project EasyMED an innovative, multi-effect distillation plant for seawater desalination has been developed. The basic elements of each effect are vertical plates. On one side of a plate, seawater is distributed as a falling film, whereas on the other side, the plate is heated by condensing vapour generated in the previous effect. Our Institute is concerned with the heat and mass transfer in a system based on numerical experiments. Good agreement was achieved between a one-dimensional (1D) and a two-dimensional (2D) model capturing the evaporating falling film. Being less computationally expensive and sufficient for practical requirements, a 1D model was adopted for conjugate heat transfer between condensing and evaporating cells.

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