Analysis of the effect of turbulence promoters in hollow fiber membrane distillation modules by computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulations

• Main Authors: Yang, Xing, Yu, Hui, Wang, Rong, Fane, Anthony Gordon
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Environmental engineering::Water treatment
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/100900; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/10023
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

As an extended exploration of process enhancing strategies, nine modified hollow fiber modules with various turbulence promoters were designed and modeled using a two dimensional computational fluid dynamic (CFD) heat-transfer model to investigate their potential in improving heat transfer and module p...