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Exergy analysis of a reverse osmosis desalination plant in California by Yunus Cerci is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.
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The exergy analysis of a 7250 m3/d reverse osmosis (RO) desalination plant in California was conducted by using actual plant operation data, and an alternative design was investigated to improve its performance. The RO plant is described in detail, and the exergies across the major components of the plant are calculated and illustrated using exergy flow diagrams in an attempt to assess the exergy destruction distribution. The primary locations of exergy destruction were the membrane modules in which the saline water is separated into the brine and the permeate, and the throttling valves where the pressure of liquid is reduced, pressure drops through various process components, and the mixing chamber where the permeate and blend are mixed. The largest exergy destruction occurred in the membrane modules, and this amounted to 74.07% of the total exergy input. The smallest exergy destruction occurred in the mixing chamber. The mixing accounted for 0.67% of the total exergy input and presents a relatively small fxaction. The second law of efficiency of the plant was calculated to be 4.3%, which seems to be low. The analysis of the alternative design was based on the exergy analysis. It
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- Author
- Yunus Cerci
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0011-9164)
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)