• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.387-394
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• 2019

Membrane distillation (MD) is one of the water treatment processes which involves the momentum, heat and mass transfer through channels and membrane. In this study, CFD modeling has been used to simulate the heat and mass transfer in the direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD). Also, the effect of operating parameters on the water flux is investigated. The result shows a good agreement with the experimental result. Results indicated that, while feed temperature is increasing in the feed side, water flux improves in the permeate side. Since higher velocity leads to the higher mixing and turbulence in the feed channel, water flux rises due to this increase in the feed velocity. Moreover, results revealed that temperature polarization coefficient is rising as flow rate (velocity) increases and it is decreasing while the feed temperature increases. Lastly, the thermal efficiency of direct contact membrane distillation is defined, and results confirm that thermal efficiency improves while feed temperature increases. Also, flow rate increment results in enhancement of thermal efficiency.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.127-136
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• 2015

This paper is a study of a simple distillation process. Its objective is to compare fuel production from plastic waste, its data collecting is from the factory and simple data calculated a suitable evaluation on the simple distillation plant built before calculation. The experiment with a simple distillation process is separated into three sections. The first section is a simple distillation process of distillation producing diesel using heat source by biomass. The second section is distillation process which produces fuel using heat source by burner. The third section uses heat source by burner incorporate with biomass. The experiment reveals that the result of the second section is the most efficient. In comparison with the experiments and the simple calculation, the result on the efficiency of work has error less than 5% and it is sufficient for the next experimental process. Thus, the study and design on a simple distillation process produces fuel from plastic waste has to concern mainly on design heat exchangers, flow rate and optimized temperature. Further study on this plant can be developed throughout the county due to its low cost and efficiency.

• 한국초전도ㆍ저온공학회논문지
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.145-150
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• 2002

The distillation column is one of large energy consumable units in the cryogenic air separation process and the accurate energy analysis of this unit is necessary for choice of energy saving process. In this work, the energy method was adopted for energy analysis of a cryogenic nitrogen distillation column. In order to designing the energy saving distillation column, the exergy distribution of feed air, exergy efficiency and exergy loss for process condition was investigated and the optimal process condition to minimize the exergy loss was found. The result from this work can be used as a guideline for the choice of the process design conditions and efficiency improvement of cryogenic distillation column.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.52-56
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• 2021

친환경적인 환경과 자동차산업의 발달로 내연기관자동차에서 완전연소를 통해 열효율을 높이고 배기가스를 점감하기 위한 연구를 활발하게 진행하고 있다. 특히 휘발유의 휘발성과 연소특성에 대한 이해로 엔진의 부하와 출력을 높이기 위한 연구가 진행되고, 경유 연료의 증류 및 연소특성을 토대로 매연이나 유해가스 저감과 최적의 효율을 구현하기 위한 연구가 진행 중이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 한국 산업규격의 석유제품 증류시험방법에 대한 KS M ISO 3045의 내용을 토대로 국내에서 시판되고 사용되는 정유사 4사의 휘발유와 경유를 기반으로 증류실험을 진행하였다. 증류실험으로 증류량에 따른 증류온도와의 상관관계를 확인하고 증류된 연료의 비교를 통해 증류특성에 대한 분석을 실시하여 시험기준에 부합하는지에 대한 적합성을 확인하였다.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제46권5호
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• pp.892-897
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• 2008

열복합 증류탑을 활용하여 기존의 에탄올 농축공정보다 에너지 사용량을 절감한 새로운 에탄올 농축공정을 제안하였다. 벤젠을 분리제로 사용한 제안된 증류 시스템은 증류곡선이 평형농도 곡선과 유사하게 분포되도록 설계되었으며, 증류영역의 경계에 가까운 원료 조성을 가지도록 설계하여 최대의 증류효율을 얻도록 구성하였다. 본 연구의 증류시 스템은 기존의 농축시스템에 비해 약 18%의 에너지 절감효과를 얻을 수 있었다. 또, 여타의 유사한 공비증류 공정에 활용할 수 있는 설계방안을 제시하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제12권12호
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• pp.1197-1201
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• 2006

In order to improve the operability in a fully thermally coupled distillation column the main column is separated into an upper and a lower column, and its design method is explained. With a distillation experiment using a two-inch column the operability of the proposed column is examined. Readily available methanol, ethanol and propanol are used as the feed, and the experimental result is compared with that of the HYSYS simulation. It is found from the experiment that the recovery ranges between 58.8% and 68% and the distillation efficiency is lower than that of the simulation. consumes less energy than an original column, it is not widely implemented in practice due to its operational difficulty. However, it is proved that the proposed distillation column can be operated without compressors and it can be practically utilized.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제51권1호
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• pp.93-97
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• 2013

소형 충전물을 이용한 수평형 증류 장치를 제작하여 실험실 규모의 증류실험을 실시하였다. 직경 6.7 mm Raschig 링 형태의 스테인레스 스틸 충전물을 넣은 40 mm 직경의 유리관을 증류탑으로 사용하였다. 증류관의 길이 방향으로 5개의 독립된 전기가열기를 배열하여 증류관 내부 온도를 분리 조절할 수 있도록 하였다. 증류관 내의 온도가 길이에 따라 연속적으로 변화하도록 조절함으로써 각각의 온도에 상응하는 기-액 평형을 형성하여 분리가 가능하도록 하였다. 증류실험의 결과 증류관의 증류단 상당길이(HETP)가 수직형 증류관에 비해 큰 것을 알았으며, 실용화가 가능한 처리용량과 분리효율을 얻었다.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.347-353
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• 2019

Although membrane distillation (MD) has great promise for desalination of saline water sources, it is crucial to improve its thermal efficiency to reduce the operating cost. Accordingly, this study intended to examine the thermal energy efficiency of MD modules in a pilot scale system. Two different modules of hollow fiber membranes were compared in direct contact MD mode. One of them was made of polypropylene with the effective membrane area of $2.6m^2$ and the other was made of polyvinylidene fluoride with the effective membrane area of $7.6m^2$. The influence of operation parameters, including the temperatures of feed and distillate, feed flow rate, and distillate flow rate on the flux, recovery, and performance ratio (PR), was investigated. Results showed that the two MD membranes showed different flux and PR values even under similar conditions. Moreover, both flow rate and temperature difference between feed and distillate significantly affect the PR values. These results suggest that the operating conditions for MD should be determined by considering the module properties.

• Applied Science and Convergence Technology
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.248-253
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• 2014

Air Gap Membrane Distillation (AGMD) is one of several technologies that can be used to solve problems fresh water availability. AGMD exhibits several advantages, including low conductive heat loss and higher thermal efficiency, due to the presence of an air gap between the membrane and condensation wall. A previous study by Bhardwaj found that the condensation surface properties (materials and contact angle) affected the total collected fresh water in the solar distillation process. However, the process condition differences between solar distillation and AGMD might result in different condensation phenomena. In contrast, N. Miljkovic showed that a hydrophobic surface has higher condensation heat transfer. Moreover, to the best of our knowledge, there is no study that investigates the effect of condensation surface properties in AGMD to overall process performance (i.e. flux and thermal efficiency). Thus, in this study, we treated the AGMD condensation surface to make it hydrophobic or hydrophilic. The condensation surface could be made hydrophilic by immersing and boiling plate in deionized (DI) water, which caused the formation of hydrophilic aluminum hydroxide (AlOOH) nanostructures. Afterwards, the treated plate was coated using hexamethyldisiloxane (HMDSO) through plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD). The result indicated that condensation surface properties do not affect the permeate flux or thermal efficiency significantly. In general, the permeate flux and thermal efficiency for the treated plates were lower than those of the non-treated plate (pristine). However, at a 1 mm and 3 mm air gap, the treated plate outperformed the non-treated plate (pristine) in terms of permeate flux. Therefore, although surface wettability effect was not significant, it still provided a little influence.

• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.57-71
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• 2014

In this study, a theoretical model for the transport phenomena in an Air Gap Membrane Distillation used for desalination was developed. The model is based on the conservation equations for the mass, momentum, energy and species within the feed water solution as well as on the mass and energy balances on the membrane sides. The rarefaction impacts are taken into consideration showing their effects on process parameters particularly permeate flow and thermal efficiency. The theoretical model was validated with available data and was found in good agreement especially when the slip condition is introduced. The rarefaction impact was found considerable inducing an increase in the permeate flux and the thermal efficiency.