Efficiency of a combined desalination and power system utilising a two-phase flow multi-stream heat exchanger

Abstract

The aim of this study is to simplify the process of discharge thermal energy combined desalination with power system by integrating the two existing heat exchangers (condensers) into a new multistream one. This system is a heat recovery unit, which is used to cogenerate water and power. Two shell-and-tube condensers operate in a closed power cycle and a desalination system for cooling an ammonia mixture as a working fluid and condensing a pure vapor, respectively. Here, a two-phase flow multistream condenser is utilized instead of the two low-eergy-efficiency shell-and-tube condensers. The results proved that the proposed technique leads to improving its exergy efficiency by 15%. The performance of the proposed condenser was analyzed by applying parametric optimization.

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22030

Document Type

Journal Article

Date of Publication

2017

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School of Engineering

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Taylor and Francis

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Araghi, H., Khiadani, M., Hooman, K., & Lucas, G. (2017). Efficiency of a combined desalination and power system utilizing a two-phase flow multistream heat exchanger. Heat Transfer Engineering, 38(11-12), 1000–1007. https://doi.org/10.1080/01457632.2016.1216939

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10.1080/01457632.2016.1216939