Performance Evaluation of Multi Effect Distillation for Solar Thermal Desalination

태양열 해수담수화를 위한 증발식 다중효용 담수기 성능평가

  • Joo, Hong-Jin (Dept. of Mechanical Eng., Graduate School, In-Ha University) ;
  • Kwak, Hee-Youl (Solar Thermal Research Center, Korea Institute of Energy Research)
  • 주홍진 (인하대학교 기계공학과 대학원) ;
  • 곽희열 (한국에너지기술연구원)
  • Published : 2011.04.07

Abstract

This study was accomplished to evaluate the performance of Multi Effect Distillation(MED) for solar thermal desalination system. It was designed Multi effect distillation with $3m^3/day$ capacity and Shell&Tube type heat exchanger. Also, The effective heat transfer of Shell&Tube heat exchanger was used Cu(90%)-Ni(10%) corrugated tube. The parameters relating to the performance of Multi Effect Distillation are known as hot water flow rate. The experimental conditions for each parameters were $18^{\circ}C$ for sea water inlet temperature, $6m^3/hour$ sea water inlet volume flow rate, $75^{\circ}C$ for hot water inlet temperature, 2.4, 3.6, and $4.8m^3/hour$ for hot water inlet volume flow rate, respectively. The results are as follows, Development for Multi effect distillation was required about 40kW heat and 35kW cooling source to produce $3m^3/day$ of fresh water. And, Performance ratio of Development Multi effect distillation was about 2.0191.

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