Feasibility study of a new two-stage low temperature desalination process
2012
Gude, Veera Gnaneswar | Nirmalakhandan, N. | Deng, Shuguang | Maganti, Anand
This paper presents the preliminary field test data of a two-stage low temperature phase-change desalination process. The process under development operates at low temperatures and low pressures generated by local barometric head. A two-stage configuration of this process was developed and tested at a field site in the Puget Sound bay area of the State of Washington. The field test results proved that the two-stage desalination process has potential for standalone small to large scale applications in water and energy scarce rural areas with specific energy consumption of 1500kJ/kg of freshwater. Economical analysis conducted on the desalination system results in desalination costs around $3/m³ using a cheap waste heat source purchased at $0.5/GJ. Since, most small scale domestic desalination systems are designed in combination with a renewable energy source; when this desalination system is powered by a low grade flat plate solar collector heat source, the desalination costs are less than $7/m³ which falls in acceptable range for small scale desalination systems of similar capacity.
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