Performance assessment of coupled concentrated photovoltaic-thermal and vacuum membrane distillation (CPVT-VMD) system for water desalination

Numerical simulations were carried out to assess the technical and economic feasibility of a solar water desalination system that has a novel hybrid Concentrating Photovoltaic Thermal (CPVT) collector coupled with a Vacuum Membrane Distillation (VMD) process. A special characteristic of this CPVT is...

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Main Authors: Santana, Juan Pablo, Rivera-Solorio, Carlos I., Chew, Jia Wei, Tan, Yong Zen, Gijon-Rivera, Miguel, Acosta-Pazmino, Ivan
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1697242023-12-29T06:47:38Z Performance assessment of coupled concentrated photovoltaic-thermal and vacuum membrane distillation (CPVT-VMD) system for water desalination Santana, Juan Pablo Rivera-Solorio, Carlos I. Chew, Jia Wei Tan, Yong Zen Gijon-Rivera, Miguel Acosta-Pazmino, Ivan School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Engineering::Chemical engineering Solar Energy Concentrated Photovoltaic Thermal Numerical simulations were carried out to assess the technical and economic feasibility of a solar water desalination system that has a novel hybrid Concentrating Photovoltaic Thermal (CPVT) collector coupled with a Vacuum Membrane Distillation (VMD) process. A special characteristic of this CPVT is its triangular receiver with PV cells facing the reflecting surface. This type of receiver has the advantage of generating more electricity with less PV surface area and great potential to be used to hybridize conventional parabolic thermal collectors. TRNSYS was employed to analyze the annual performance of the CPVT-VMD system evaluating parameters such as solar fraction, specific permeate production and specific energy production for different coastal cities. In the dynamic simulations, local annual weather data and specific information about the characteristics and operating conditions of a real CPVT collector and a VMD module were considered. From the parametric analysis the optimal surface area of collectors and the input temperature of the VDM module were determined. A maximum specific permeate of 218.410 m 3/m2VMD for Acapulco, MX, and a minimum of 170.365 m 3/m2VMD for Singapore, SG, were achieved for the proposed CPVT-VMD system of four solar collectors with an operating set temperature of 55 °C. An economic profit was found after 7 years for Acapulco city, which showed great potential to use solar energy from hybrid CPVT collectors for a VMD process to provide freshwater in coastal cities. Published version This research was partially funded by the Tecnologico de Monterrey Challenge-Based Research Funding Program. Special thanks to Tecnológico de Monterrey and CONACYT for their financial support to some of the researchers during the length of their post-graduate studies. 2023-08-01T05:30:58Z 2023-08-01T05:30:58Z 2022 Journal Article Santana, J. P., Rivera-Solorio, C. I., Chew, J. W., Tan, Y. Z., Gijon-Rivera, M. & Acosta-Pazmino, I. (2022). Performance assessment of coupled concentrated photovoltaic-thermal and vacuum membrane distillation (CPVT-VMD) system for water desalination. Energies, 16(3), 1541-. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en16031541 1996-1073 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/169724 10.3390/en16031541 2-s2.0-85147949872 3 16 1541 en Energies © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/). application/pdf
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topic Engineering::Chemical engineering
Solar Energy
Concentrated Photovoltaic Thermal
spellingShingle Engineering::Chemical engineering
Solar Energy
Concentrated Photovoltaic Thermal
Santana, Juan Pablo
Rivera-Solorio, Carlos I.
Chew, Jia Wei
Tan, Yong Zen
Gijon-Rivera, Miguel
Acosta-Pazmino, Ivan
Performance assessment of coupled concentrated photovoltaic-thermal and vacuum membrane distillation (CPVT-VMD) system for water desalination
description Numerical simulations were carried out to assess the technical and economic feasibility of a solar water desalination system that has a novel hybrid Concentrating Photovoltaic Thermal (CPVT) collector coupled with a Vacuum Membrane Distillation (VMD) process. A special characteristic of this CPVT is its triangular receiver with PV cells facing the reflecting surface. This type of receiver has the advantage of generating more electricity with less PV surface area and great potential to be used to hybridize conventional parabolic thermal collectors. TRNSYS was employed to analyze the annual performance of the CPVT-VMD system evaluating parameters such as solar fraction, specific permeate production and specific energy production for different coastal cities. In the dynamic simulations, local annual weather data and specific information about the characteristics and operating conditions of a real CPVT collector and a VMD module were considered. From the parametric analysis the optimal surface area of collectors and the input temperature of the VDM module were determined. A maximum specific permeate of 218.410 m 3/m2VMD for Acapulco, MX, and a minimum of 170.365 m 3/m2VMD for Singapore, SG, were achieved for the proposed CPVT-VMD system of four solar collectors with an operating set temperature of 55 °C. An economic profit was found after 7 years for Acapulco city, which showed great potential to use solar energy from hybrid CPVT collectors for a VMD process to provide freshwater in coastal cities.
author2 School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
author_facet School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Santana, Juan Pablo
Rivera-Solorio, Carlos I.
Chew, Jia Wei
Tan, Yong Zen
Gijon-Rivera, Miguel
Acosta-Pazmino, Ivan
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author Santana, Juan Pablo
Rivera-Solorio, Carlos I.
Chew, Jia Wei
Tan, Yong Zen
Gijon-Rivera, Miguel
Acosta-Pazmino, Ivan
author_sort Santana, Juan Pablo
title Performance assessment of coupled concentrated photovoltaic-thermal and vacuum membrane distillation (CPVT-VMD) system for water desalination
title_short Performance assessment of coupled concentrated photovoltaic-thermal and vacuum membrane distillation (CPVT-VMD) system for water desalination
title_full Performance assessment of coupled concentrated photovoltaic-thermal and vacuum membrane distillation (CPVT-VMD) system for water desalination
title_fullStr Performance assessment of coupled concentrated photovoltaic-thermal and vacuum membrane distillation (CPVT-VMD) system for water desalination
title_full_unstemmed Performance assessment of coupled concentrated photovoltaic-thermal and vacuum membrane distillation (CPVT-VMD) system for water desalination
title_sort performance assessment of coupled concentrated photovoltaic-thermal and vacuum membrane distillation (cpvt-vmd) system for water desalination
publishDate 2023
url https://hdl.handle.net/10356/169724
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