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Title

Investigation of agglomerates growth mechanism for thermal seawater desalination

Authors

Atsushi Tsutsumi, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8505, JapanFollow
Masanori Ishizuka, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan;
Yasuki Kansha, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan;
Hiroyuki Mizuno, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan;

Conference Dates

May 22-27, 2016

Abstract

Desalination technology has been paid large attention because water demand has been increasing due to the industrial development and high growth rate of population. To develop a novel desalination process with high energy efficiency and with high recovery ratio, a self-heat recuperative seawater desalination process using a fluidized-bed evaporator has been proposed (1). The fluidized-bed evaporator was employed to prevent scale deposition on the heat transfer surface during seawater evaporation. The seawater evaporation experiment using a lab-scale fluidized bed showed that the proposed evaporator prevents scale deposition on the heat transfer surface (2). However, it was also found that the seawater feed into the bed causes agglomeration of fluidized particles, which has the possibility to cause defluidization.

In this research, seawater evaporation experiments using the lab-scale fluidized-bed evaporator were conducted and the influence of operating conditions such as fluidizing gas velocity, seawater feed rate and bed temperature on the agglomeration behavior of fluidized particles was examined. Furthermore, the mechanism of agglomerates growth was investigated and the optimal operating conditions of the fluidized bed for thermal desalination were examined.

REFERENCES

1. H. Mizuno, Y. Kansha, M. Ishizuka and A. Tsutsumi. A Novel Thermal Desalination Process Using Fluidized Bed. Chem. Eng. Trans., 39: 181-186, 2014
2. H. Mizuno, Y. Kansha, M. Ishizuka and A. Tsutsumi. Agglomeration behavior in fluidized-bed evaporator for thermal seawater desalination. Appl. Therm. Eng., 89: 1096-1103, 2015.

Recommended Citation

Atsushi Tsutsumi, Masanori Ishizuka, Yasuki Kansha, and Hiroyuki Mizuno, "Investigation of agglomerates growth mechanism for thermal seawater desalination" in "Fluidization XV", Jamal Chaouki, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada Franco Berruti, Wewstern University, Canada Xiaotao Bi, UBC, Canada Ray Cocco, PSRI Inc. USA Eds, ECI Symposium Series, (2016). https://dc.engconfintl.org/fluidization_xv/165