Evaluation and minimisation of energy consumption in a medium-scale reverse osmosis brackish water desalination plant
Alsarayreh, Alanood A. Al-Obaidi, Mudhar A.A.R. Al-Hroub, A.M. Patel, Rajnikant
Alsarayreh, Alanood A.
Al-Obaidi, Mudhar A.A.R.
Al-Hroub, A.M.
Patel, Rajnikant
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2020-03-01
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The Reverse Osmosis (RO) process has been expansively used in water treatment as a result of its low energy consumption compared to thermal distillation processes, leading to reduced overall water production cost. Evaluation and minimisation of energy consumption (expressed in kWh/m3 of fresh water production) in a medium-scale spiral wound brackish water RO (BWRO) desalination plant of the Arab Potash Company (APC) are the main aims of this research. The model developed earlier by the authors has been integrated to simulate the process and achieve the main aims. Energy consumption calculations of low salinity BWRO desalination plant, with and without an energy recovery device, have been carried out using the gPROMS software suite. In other words, this research evaluated the impact of adding an energy recovery device on the RO process energy consumption of the APC, which is introduced for the first time. Also, the effects of several operating conditions of BWRO process include the feed flow rate, pressure and temperature on the performance indicators, which include the energy consumption and total plant recovery at different energy recovery device efficiencies, were studied. The simulation results showed that the total energy consumption could be reduced at low values of feed flow rates and pressures and high values of temperatures. More importantly, there is an opportunity to reduce the total energy consumption between 47% and 53.8% compared to the one calculated for the original design without an energy recovery device.
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Alsarayreh AA, Al-Obaidi MA, Al-Hroub AM et al (2020) Evaluation and minimisation of energy consumption in a medium-scale reverse osmosis brackish water desalination plant. Journal of Cleaner Production. 248: 119220.
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