TY - JOUR
T1 - Fundamental and application aspects of adsorption cooling and desalination
AU - Saha, Bidyut Baran
AU - El-Sharkawy, Ibrahim I.
AU - Shahzad, Muhammad Wakil
AU - Thu, Kyaw
AU - Ang, Li
AU - Ng, Kim Choon
N1 - Financial support from the National Research Foundation (NRF) Singapore (Grant WBS No. R-265-000-399-281), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) (Project no. 7000000411) and Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency.
PY - 2016/3/25
Y1 - 2016/3/25
N2 - Adsorption (AD) cycle is recently pioneered for cooling and desalination applications. For water treatment, the cycle can be used to treat highly concentrated feed water, ranging from seawater to ground water and to chemically-laden waste water. This paper presents a review of the recent development of AD cycle and its hybridization with known conventional cycles such as the MED and MSF. We begin by looking at the basic sorption theory for different adsorbent-adsorbate pairs, namely (i) silica gel-water, (ii) the zeolite-water, (iii) parent Maxsorb III/ethanol, (iv) KOH-H2 surface treated Maxsorb III/ethanol, and (v) a metal organic framework (MOF) material namely, MIL-101Cr/ethanol. We also present the basic AD cycle for seawater desalination as well as its hybridization with known conventional thermally-driven cycles for efficiency improvement. We demonstrate the water production improvement by 2-3 folds by hybridization in a pilot comprising a 3-stage MED and AD plant and the top-brine temperature 50 °C.
AB - Adsorption (AD) cycle is recently pioneered for cooling and desalination applications. For water treatment, the cycle can be used to treat highly concentrated feed water, ranging from seawater to ground water and to chemically-laden waste water. This paper presents a review of the recent development of AD cycle and its hybridization with known conventional cycles such as the MED and MSF. We begin by looking at the basic sorption theory for different adsorbent-adsorbate pairs, namely (i) silica gel-water, (ii) the zeolite-water, (iii) parent Maxsorb III/ethanol, (iv) KOH-H2 surface treated Maxsorb III/ethanol, and (v) a metal organic framework (MOF) material namely, MIL-101Cr/ethanol. We also present the basic AD cycle for seawater desalination as well as its hybridization with known conventional thermally-driven cycles for efficiency improvement. We demonstrate the water production improvement by 2-3 folds by hybridization in a pilot comprising a 3-stage MED and AD plant and the top-brine temperature 50 °C.
KW - Adsorption cooling
KW - Adsorption desalination
KW - Exergy analysis
KW - MOFs
KW - Thermal desalination
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U2 - 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2015.09.113
DO - 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2015.09.113
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84960908067
SN - 1359-4311
VL - 97
SP - 68
EP - 76
JO - Applied Thermal Engineering
JF - Applied Thermal Engineering
ER -