Journal of Fundamentals of Renewable Energy and Applications
Open Access
ISSN: 2090-4541
+44 1300 500008
ISSN: 2090-4541
+44 1300 500008
Samira Ben Abdallah
Research Unit of Environment, Catalysis and Analysis Processes,
National Engineering school of Gabès, Street Omar Ibn ElKhattab, 6029 Gabès
Tunisia
Research Article
Numerical Investigations of Coupling a Vacuum Membrane Desalination System with a Salt Gradient Solar Pond
Author(s): Samira Ben Abdallah, Nader Frikha and Slimane GabsiSamira Ben Abdallah, Nader Frikha and Slimane Gabsi
This work proposes new configurations for the desalination of salt water using systems based on coupling of membrane distillation with solar energy. This study is a comparison between two coupling configurations of the vacuum membrane distillation (VMD) hollow fiber module with salinity gradient solar pond (SGSP). The first configuration is a module membrane in series with SGSP and the second one is a hollow fiber module immersed in the SGSP. Two models describing the heat and mass transfer in the hollow fiber module and in the SGSP will be developed. The coupling of the two models allows the determination of the instantaneous variation of temperature and salinity in the SGSP and the permeate flow variation. A comparison of each module production was carried out. The mathematical model shows that the immersed module production presents more than one and a half times that of the separa.. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2090-4541.1000213