• 상하수도학회지
• /
• 제30권5호
• /
• pp.521-532
• /
• 2016

Seawater desalination market after global economic crisis has been stalled due to the market uncertainties and decreased demand in desalination. It is important to review the status of the market and to estimate the appropriate share of Forward osmosis-Reverse Osmosis (FO-RO) hybrid desalination technology by figuring out the outlook of the desalination market. Main part of the desalination market will still be MENA (Middle East and North Africa) in the near future due to the fast population increase and high dependency of fossil fuel in the region. The market for FO-RO hybrid technology, however, might be smaller than the conventional SWRO desalination market anyway because of aesthetic issues from using wastewater as raw water and higher costs associated with capex. Therefore, it is essential to improve FO membrane performance and system operation technologies in order to make the hybrid technology attractive compared to the conventional SWRO technology.

• 한국해양공학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 한국해양공학회 2004년도 학술대회지
• /
• pp.7-12
• /
• 2004

Desalination system of revers osmosis(RO) membrane has been proven to be the most economical not only for the desalination of water containing salts, but also for the concentration of solute. RO membranes were traditionally made of inorganic polymers such. as cellulose acetate(CA), Polyamide(PA). To retain more minerals in deep ocean water, a new hybrid membrane composed of tourmaline film as organic material onto inorganic layer of CA polymer in asymmetric structure was developed for RO membrane process. The performance tests were carried out in the permeability of pure water and the rejection of NaCl solution to evaluate the adaptability for DOW desalination. The results of these basic tests show possibility to apply the new hybrid RO membrane for the desalination with function control.

• Advances in Energy Research
• /
• 제3권1호
• /
• pp.59-70
• /
• 2015

In India, continuous production of electricity and sweet/potable water from Solar power and desalination plant plays a major role in the industries. Particularly in Copper industry, Solar power adopts Solar field collector combined with thermal storage system and steam Boiler, Turbine & Generator (BTG) for electricity production and desalination plant adopts Reverse osmosis (RO) for sweet/potable water production which cannot be used for long hours of power generation and consistency of energy supply for industrial processes and power generation cannot be ensured. This paper presents an overview of enhanced technology for Solar power and Desalination plant for Copper industry making it continuous production of electricity and sweet/potable water. The conventional technology can be replaced with this proposed technique in the existing and upcoming industries.

• 상하수도학회지
• /
• 제32권4호
• /
• pp.317-324
• /
• 2018

SWRO-PRO hybrid desalination technology is recently getting more attention especially in large desalination markets such as USA, Middle East, Japan, Singapore, etc. because of its promising potential to recover a considerable amount of osmotic energy from brine (a high-concentration solution of salt, 60,000 - 80,000 mg/L) and also to minimize the impact of the discharged brine into a marine ecosystem. By the research and development of the core technologies of the SWRO-PRO desalination system in a national desalination research project (Global MVP) supported by Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport (MOLIT) and Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement (KAIA), it is anticipated that around 25% of total energy consumption rate (generally 3 to $4kWh/m^3$) of the SWRO desalination can be reduced by recovering the brine's osmotic energy utilizing wastewater treatment effluent as a PRO feed solution and an isobaric pressure exchanger (PX, ERI) as a PRO energy converter. However, there are still several challenges needed to be overcome in order to ultimately commercialize the novel SWRO-PRO process. They include system optimization and integration, development of efficient PRO membrane and module, development of PRO membrane fouling control technology, development of design and operation technology for the system scaling-up, development of diverse business models, and so on. In this paper, the current status and progress of the pilot study of the newly developed SWRO-PRO hybrid desalination technology is discussed.

• 상하수도학회지
• /
• 제30권4호
• /
• pp.401-408
• /
• 2016

Desalination is getting more attention as an alternative to solve a global water shortage problem in the future. Especially, a desalination technology is being expected as a new growth engine of Korea's overseas plant business besides one of the solutions of domestic water shortage problem. In the past, a thermal evaporation technology was a predominant method in desalination market, but more than 75% of the current market is hold by a membrane-based reverse osmosis technology because of its lower energy consumption rate for desalination. In the future, it is expected to have more energy efficient desalination process. Accordingly, various processes are being developed to further enhance the desalination energy efficiency. One of the promising technologies is a desalination process combined with Pressure Retarded Osmosis (PRO) process. The PRO technology is able to generate energy by using osmotic pressure of seawater or desalination brine. And the other benefits are that it has no emission of $CO_2$ and the limited impact of external environmental factors. However, it is not commercialized yet because a high-performance PRO membrane and module, and a PRO system optimization technology is not sufficiently developed. In this paper, the recent research direction and progress of the SWRO-PRO hybrid desalination was discussed regarding a PRO membrane and module, an energy recovery system, pre-treatment and system optimization technologies, and so on.

• 상하수도학회지
• /
• 제30권4호
• /
• pp.459-469
• /
• 2016

Gas hydrate desalination process is based on a liquid to solid (Gas Hydrate, GH) phase change followed by a physical process to separate the GH from the remaining salty water. The GH based desalination process show 60.5-90% of salt rejection, post treatment like reverse osmosis (RO) process is needed to finally meet the product water quality. In this study, the energy consumption of the GH and RO hybrid system was investigated. The energy consumption of the GH process is based on the cooling and heating of seawater and the heat of GH formation reaction while RO energy consumption is calculated using the product of pressure and flow rate of high pressure pumps used in the process. The relation between minimum energy consumption of RO process and RO recovery depending on GH salt rejection, and (2) energy consumption of electric based GH process can be calculated from the simulation. As a result, energy consumption of GH-RO hybrid system and conventional seawater RO process (with/without enregy recovery device) is compared. Since the energy consumption of GH process is too high, other solution used seawater heat and heat exchanger instead of electric energy is suggested.

• 시스템엔지니어링학술지
• /
• 제12권1호
• /
• pp.73-87
• /
• 2016

Combining power generation and water production by desalination is economically advantageous. Most desalination projects use fossil fuels as an energy source, and thus contribute to increased levels of greenhouse gases. Environmental concerns have spurred researchers to find new sources of energy for desalination plants. The coupling of nuclear power production with desalination is one of the best options to achieve growth with lower environmental impact. In this paper, we will per-form a sensitivity study of coupling nuclear power to various combinations of desalination technology: {1} thermal (MSF [Multi-Stage Flashing], MED [Multi-Effect Distillation], and MED-TVC [Multi-Effect Distillation with Thermal Vapour Compression]); {2} membrane RO [Reverse Osmosis]; and {3} hybrid (MSF-RO [Multi-Stage Flashing & Reverse Osmosis] and MED-RO [Multi-Effect Distillation & Reverse Osmosis]). The Korean designed reactor plant, the APR1400 will be modeled as the energy production facility. The economical evaluation will then be executed using the computer program DEEP (Desalination Economic Evaluation Program) as developed by the IAEA. The program has capabilities to model several types of nuclear and fossil power plants, nuclear and fossil heat sources, and thermal distillation and membrane desalination technologies. The output of DEEP includes levelized water and power costs, breakdowns of cost components, energy consumption, and net saleable power for any selected option. In this study, we will examine the APR1400 coupled with a desalination power plant in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) as a prototypical example. The KSA currently has approximately 20% of the installed worldwide capacity for seawater desalination. Utilities such as power and water are constructed and run by the government. Per state practice, economic evaluation for these utilities do not consider or apply interest or carrying cost. Therefore, in this paper the evaluation results will be based on two scenarios. The first one assumes the water utility is under direct government control and in this case the interest and discount rate will be set to zero. The second scenario will assume that the water utility is controlled by a private enterprise and in this case we will consider different values of interest and discount rates (4%, 8%, & 12%).

• 청정기술
• /
• 제20권1호
• /
• pp.13-21
• /
• 2014

최근 도서지역 지하수의 염분증가로 인해 지하수가 점차 생활용수로 부적합해 짐에 따라 해수담수화의 필요성이 크게 대두되고 있다. 이러한 해수담수화를 수행하기 위해서는 많은 에너지 비용이 들어가는데, 최근 에너지가격의 상승으로 경제성 확보가 어려운 실정이다. 지열에너지를 활용한 연계형 플랜트가 문제를 해결하는 중요한 방법이 될 수 있다. 지열시스템은 지구 내부의 온도를 이용하는 방법으로서 항상 온도가 일정하며 24시간 활용할 수 있어 이용률이 높다는 장점이 있기 때문이다. 본 연구에서는 지열을 보조열원으로 활용한 진공 막 증류법 해수담수화 플랜트를 설계하고, 지열과 연계하지 않은 일반 진공 막 증류법 해수담수화 플랜트와 경제성 비교분석을 했다. 그 결과 할인율 5%일 경우 지열연계형이 $23,822,409 만큼 더 높은 순현재가치 값을 가지며, 운영기간 5.36년을 분기점으로 두 플랜트의 현금흐름이 역전되어 지열연계형 플랜트가 일반 진공 막 증류법 해수담수화 플랜트보다 더 큰 경제성을 갖는 결과를 얻었다. 또한 민감도 분석에서 주요 변수들간의 결과값 비교를 한 결과, 스팀이용비용의 변동폭이 가장 큰 영향을 미친 점에 비추어 스팀비용이 높은 지역일수록 지열에너지 연계형 플랜트가 경제적이고 효과적인 솔루션인 것으로 증명되었다.

• 대한환경공학회지
• /
• 제38권5호
• /
• pp.255-268
• /
• 2016

기후변화는 현재 사용되고 있는 지표수 및 지하수 등의 담수자원 외에도 새로운 수자원을 확보해야할 필요성을 증가시켰다. 해수담수화 시장은 이러한 변화에 따라서 매년 급증하고 있는 상황이며, 이에 발맞추어 2007년 해수담수화 플랜트 사업단이 국내에서 출범하였다. 2014년에 종료된 해수담수화플랜트 사업단은 증발식 해수담수화 기술에 치우친 국내 기술을 역삼투방식 해수담수화 기술로 선회할 수 있도록 이끌었다. 현재 세계 최고의 역삼투방식 해수담수화 기술 에너지 효율성은 약 $3.5kWh/m^3$ 전후로 조사된다. 기장 플랜트의 수준은 $3.8{\sim}4.0kWh/m^3$ 수준으로 비록 세계 최고 수준에는 미치지 못하나, 선두권이라 하기에는 부족함이 없는 것으로 사료된다. 한편, 세계 역삼투방식 해수담수화 기술은 평준화 수준에 이른 것으로 사료되며, 에너지 저감을 위해 새로운 기술을 개발하고자 경쟁중이다. 미래 해수담수 시장에서 경쟁할 것으로 예상되는 기술로 정삼투공정, 막증발법 등이 있으며, 이를 위해 국내에서도 정역삼투 융합공정 개발, 막증발법 및 얍력지연삼투등의 기술개발을 진행중에 있다. 이를 통하여 국내 기술수준을 $2.5kWh/m^3$까지 낮출 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 한국정보통신학회 2016년도 추계학술대회
• /
• pp.663-664
• /
• 2016

해수를 이용한 온도차 발전은 심층수와 표층수의 온도 차이를 이용한 암모니아(냉매)를 사용하여 폐쇄적인 액화와 기화를 반복하여 터빈을 돌리는 방식이다. 온도차 발전의 특성상 온도 차이가 클수록 에너지 발전 특성은 좋아진다. 이는 심층수 표층수의 온도차이가 커야 됨을 이야기 한다. 하지만 겨울이 되면 표층수와 심층수의 온도차이가 크지 않아 에너지 효율이 떨어지는 문제점이 있다. 그리고 해수 담수화기술은 지구의 97%를 차지하지만 우리가 먹을 수 없는 바닷물을 담수로 바꾸는 기술로, 해수 담수화기술로 생산된 담수는 선박내의 공업, 식수 등 각종 용수로 사용할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 현재 문제가 되고 있는 계절에 따른 표층수의 온도 변화를 개선하기 위해 기존에 사용하고 있는 선박용 디젤엔진의 열에너지와 LNG의 냉열 에너지를 사용한 온도차 발전을 위해 LNG 운송 선박을 기준으로 LNG 운송 선박 하이브리드 엔진에 관한 연구와 냉열 에너지를 활용한 해수 냉동법으로 담수화하는 발전 및 담수화를 복합시킨 연구를 제시하고자 한다.