Thermodynamic cycles of adsorption desalination system

Jun W. Wu; Eric J. Hu; Mark J. Biggs

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2011.04.049

Thermodynamic cycles of adsorption desalination system

Jun W. Wu, Eric J. Hu^*, Mark J. Biggs

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Abstract

The potential to use waste heat to co-generate cooling and fresh water from saline water using adsorption on silica is attracting increasing attention. A variety of different thermodynamic cycles of such an adsorption desalination (AD) system arise as the temperature of the saline water evaporator is varied relative to temperature of the water used to cool the adsorbent as it adsorbs the evaporated water. In this paper, all these possible thermodynamic cycles are enumerated and analysed to determine their relative performances in terms of specific energy consumption and fresh water productivity.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	316-322
Number of pages	7
Journal	Applied Energy
Volume	90
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2011.04.049
Publication status	Published - Feb 2012

Keywords

Adsorption desalination
Cooling
Silica gel-water
Thermodynamic cycles

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Building and Construction
General Energy
Mechanical Engineering
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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