How Heat and Mass Recovery Strategies Impact the Performance of Adsorption Desalination Plant: Theory and Experiments

Abstract

A prototype adsorption desalination facility is experimentally studied, and the performance tests are conducted with and without the heat and mass recovery procedures. The experiments show that practical and yet effective methods could yield a significant boost to the specific daily water production and performance ratio of the desalination plant by 15.7% and 42.5%, respectively.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors wish to thank Jonathan M. Capel, C. H. Lim Peter, and Lim Yee Sern for gathering part of the experimental data. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the financial support of an A*STAR SERC grant.