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- (267b) Optimization of Direct Contact Membrane Distillation Based on Regressive Rotation Design
In DCMD process, polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) hollow fiber membranes were employed to desalting 3.5wt% sodium chloride aqueous solution and all of salt rejection in this study is above 99.9%. The operating conditions including feed inlet temperature, permeate inlet temperature and velocity of feed and the module configuration parameters including module packing density and length-diameter ratio were taken into account. The average permeate flux , water productivity per unit volume of module, water production per unit exergy loss and an comprehensive index (CI) of them were taken as optimization objectives and their regression models were developed.
It is concluded that the optimal set of operating conditions and membrane module parameters has been determined and the significant increase of MD performance was achieved. The coupling and interaction effect between the operating conditions and the module parameters were significant on the performance of DCMD. The models for the prediction of DCMD performance were established. Good agreement was observed between the simulated and the experimental results.