Modeling of an integrated air gap membrane distillation unit utilizing a flat plate solar collector

Mohammed Rabie; Mohamed S. Salem; Abdallah Y.M. Ali; A.H. El-Shazly; M.F. Elkady; Shinichi Ookawara

Energy Reports (Dec 2020)

Modeling of an integrated air gap membrane distillation unit utilizing a flat plate solar collector

Mohammed Rabie,
Mohamed S. Salem,
Abdallah Y.M. Ali,
A.H. El-Shazly,
M.F. Elkady,
Shinichi Ookawara

Affiliations

Mohammed Rabie: Chemical and Petrochemicals Engineering Department, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, Alexandria 21934, Egypt; Mechanical Power Engineering Department, Mansoura University, El-Mansoura 35516, Egypt; Corresponding author at: Chemical and Petrochemicals Engineering Department, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, Alexandria 21934, Egypt.
Mohamed S. Salem: Mechanical Power Engineering Department, Mansoura University, El-Mansoura 35516, Egypt; Mansoura University Nanotechnology Center, Mansoura University, Mansoura, 35516, Egypt
Abdallah Y.M. Ali: Chemical and Petrochemicals Engineering Department, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, Alexandria 21934, Egypt; Mechanical Power Engineering Department, Faculty of Energy Engineering, Aswan University, Aswan 81528, Egypt
A.H. El-Shazly: Chemical and Petrochemicals Engineering Department, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, Alexandria 21934, Egypt; Chemical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Alexandria 11432, Egypt
M.F. Elkady: Chemical and Petrochemicals Engineering Department, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, Alexandria 21934, Egypt; Fabrication Technology Department, Advanced Technology and New Materials Research Institute (ATNMRI), City of Scientific Research and Technological Applications, Alexandria, Egypt
Shinichi Ookawara: Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 6
pp. 1591 – 1596

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This work investigates the incorporation of a flat plate solar collector into an air gap membrane distillation (AGMD) system to produce pure water from water wells in Egypt. First, it considers the metrological data for Borg El Arab city, which is located at the north of the western desert in Egypt. A three-dimensional AGMD numerical model is established and solved using ANSYS 2019 commercial software, after setting suitable boundary conditions. Once the pure water flux is predicted at certain feed water inlet and outlet temperatures, a thermal analysis of the flat plate solar collector is introduced to estimate the required solar collector area to produce the required pure water flux.

Published in Energy Reports

ISSN: 2352-4847 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
Website: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/energy-reports/

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