| Title: | Investigation of solid polymeric hollow fiber heat exchange devices for use in thermally-driven desalination processes |
| Author: | |
| Document Type: | Thesis |
| Department: | Otto H. York Department of Chemical Engineering |
| Degree: | Master of Science |
| Major: | Chemical Engineering |
| Advisory Committee: |
Sirkar, Kamalesh K.
Xanthos, Marino
Huang, Michael Chien-Yueh
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| Thesis Date: | 2005, August |
| Keywords: |
Desalination
Solid polymeric hollow fibers
heat exchange
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| Availability: | Unrestricted |
| Abstract: |
The heat exchange between hot brine (4 wt% NaCl) and cold water as
well as between condensing steam and cold water without direct fluid-fluid
contact using modules made out of solid polymeric hollow fibers of polypropylene
(PP) and polyetheretherketone (PEEK) has been studied. The solid hollow
fiber dimensions were 425μm/575μm (ID/OD) for PP and 420μm/570μm
(ID/OD) for PEEK. Extensive heat transfer measurements have been performed
and the experimentally-determined overall heat transfer coefficients utilized
to isolate the wall heat transfer coefficient, the inside heat transfer
coefficient and the outside heat transfer coefficient. The heat exchange
between hot brine and cold water was evaluated at hot brine temperatures
between 82 °C and 99 °C and cold water temperatures between 5
°C and 41 °C. The tube-side Reynolds Number was varied in the
range of 58-2464 and 3-160, respectively for the hot brine-cold water
and condensing steam-cold water systems. The maximum U (overall heat transfer
coefficient based on the inside area) values attained in the hot brine-cold
water system for PEEK and PP-based modules were 1914 W/m2-K
and 2076 W/m2-K respectively. The maximum U value attained
in the two-phase heat exchange system was 1700 W/m2-K. Overall,
the PP-based module HEPP2 showed the highest conductance per unit volume
(CUV) value (2.92x106 W/m3-K). The highest CUV value
achieved was approximately 19 times higher than what can be achieved in
conventional metallic shell and tube heat exchangers. The results for
hot brine-cold water heat exchange demonstrated thermal efficiencies very
close to 97% and up to four transfer units for devices having height of
transfer unit (HTU) values as low as 5 cm. Those results were attained
under conditions of lower tube-side Reynolds numbers.
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| Complete Thesis: |
njit-etd2005-099
(152 pages ~ 6,777 KB pdf)
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