Elbessomy, Mohamed O., Elsheniti, Mahmoud B., Elsherbiny, Samy M., Rezk, Ahmed and Elsamni, Osama A. (2023). Productivity and Thermal Performance Enhancements of Hollow Fiber Water Gap Membrane Distillation Modules Using Helical Fiber Configuration: 3D Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling. Membranes, 13 (10),
Abstract
Although hollow fiber water gap membrane distillation (HF-WGMD) units offer certain advantages over other MD desalination systems, they still require enhancements in terms of distillate flux and productivity. Therefore, this work proposes a novel configuration by incorporating the helical turns of HF membranes within the water gap channel of the HF-WGMD modules. A fully coupled 3D CFD model is developed and validated to simulate the multifaceted energy conservations and diffusion mechanisms that are inherent to the transport phenomena in the proposed HF-WGMD module. Single and double helical HF membrane designs with different numbers of turns are compared to the reference modules of single and double straight HF membrane designs under various operational conditions. At a feed temperature of 70 °C, a noteworthy 11.4% enhancement in the distillate flux is observed when employing 20 helical turns, compared to the single straight HF membrane module. Furthermore, the specific productivity revealed a maximum enhancement of 46.2% when using 50 helical turns. The thermal performance of the proposed HF-WGMD module shows higher energy savings of up to 35% in specific thermal energy consumption for a one-stage module. Using three stages of single helical modules can increase the gain output ratio from 0.17 for the single stage to 0.37, which represents an increase of 117.6%. These findings indicate the high potential of the proposed approach in advancing the performance of HF-WGMD systems.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes13100843 |
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Divisions: | College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > School of Engineering and Technology > Mechanical, Biomedical & Design College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > Aston Advanced Materials |
Funding Information: | The authors extend their appreciation to the Deputyship for Research and Innovation, “Ministry of Education” in Saudi Arabia for funding this research (IFKSUOR3−321−1). This research was funded by the Deputyship for Research and Innovation, “Ministry of E |
Additional Information: | Copyright © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | compact design,hollow fiber MD,membrane distillation,thermal desalination,Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous),Process Chemistry and Technology,Filtration and Separation |
Publication ISSN: | 2077-0375 |
Last Modified: | 06 Aug 2024 09:56 |
Date Deposited: | 02 Nov 2023 15:59 |
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Published Date: | 2023-10-22 |
Accepted Date: | 2023-10-20 |
Authors: |
Elbessomy, Mohamed O.
Elsheniti, Mahmoud B. Elsherbiny, Samy M. Rezk, Ahmed ( ![]() Elsamni, Osama A. |