Duplicating Freshwater Productivity of Adsorption Desalination System Using Aluminum Metal Filings
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Chemical and Materials Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
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Center of Excellence in Desalination Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
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Mechanical Department, Faculty of Technology and Education, Sohag University, Sohag 82524, Egypt
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College of Engineering at Wadi Addawaser, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj 11911, Saudi Arabia
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Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Minia University, Minia 61517, Egypt
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Academic Editors: Ashraf Aly Hassan, Amro El Badawy and Hafiz Salih
Water 2021, 13(22), 3231; https://doi.org/10.3390/w13223231
Received: 14 October 2021
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Revised: 9 November 2021
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Accepted: 11 November 2021
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Published: 15 November 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies for Seawater Desalination)
In this paper, improving the overall heat transfer coefficient by adding aluminum species to silica gel has been studied theoretically. An adsorption desalination system is proposed, and a lumped theoretical model conducted to investigate employing the metal additives within the adsorbent bed with and without a heat recovery between condenser and evaporator. A 30% of the total mass of the adsorbent bed contents was considered to be replaced by aluminum species. According to this, the overall heat transfer coefficient has been increased by 260%, which shows a good impact on the performance of the adsorption system. Daily water productivity was increased by 70% at the worst-case, reaching up to 17 m3/day/ton of silica gel without heat recovery. By employing heat recovery with the metal filing, the daily water productivity reached 42 m3/day/ton of silica gel which is four times the productivity of the classic silica gel-based adsorption desalination system.
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Keywords:
freshwater; adsorption desalination; aluminum metal filings; silica gel; cooling; renewable energy
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Alhumade, H.; Askalany, A.; Rezk, H.; Al-Zahrani, A.A.; Zaman, S.F. Duplicating Freshwater Productivity of Adsorption Desalination System Using Aluminum Metal Filings. Water 2021, 13, 3231. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13223231
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Alhumade H, Askalany A, Rezk H, Al-Zahrani AA, Zaman SF. Duplicating Freshwater Productivity of Adsorption Desalination System Using Aluminum Metal Filings. Water. 2021; 13(22):3231. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13223231
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlhumade, Hesham, Ahmed Askalany, Hegazy Rezk, Abdulrahim A. Al-Zahrani, and Sharif F. Zaman. 2021. "Duplicating Freshwater Productivity of Adsorption Desalination System Using Aluminum Metal Filings" Water 13, no. 22: 3231. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13223231
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