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DESALINATION FROM THERMODYNAMICS POINT OF VIEW
Desalination, desalinization, or desalinization is a condition that eliminates mineral deposits from salt water. More commonly, desalination could also refer to the elimination of salts and minerals, which also happens to be a chief matter for agricultural production.
Thermodynamics is a division of physics concerned with heat and temperature and their relation to energy and effort. It explains macroscopic elements, such as internal dynamism, entropy, and pressure that partially express a body of substance.
Desalination from a thermodynamics point of view refers to the process where heat and temperatures are put into use to remove salts and minerals from seawater. Nowadays, production of fresh drinking water is of importance arid and semi-arid areas where the availability of quality drinking water is subtle. Because of the high costs associated with water production, use of desalination techniques has become quite familiar. There are different types of desalination systems. Linking a construction series with a purification scheme is a fundamental approach from the thermodynamic point of view in which external gasses from the gas turbine can be used as a portion of the required energy for the desalination process. The evaporating vapor can also be partially use for the desalination process (Husain, 430).
Seawater desalination processes are usually coupled to electricity generation stations in dry localities of the earth to provide drinking water. The growing demand for water goes together with a parallel rise in the demand for electricity. Both processes call for the expenditure of primary power. Various groupings of power-desalination schemes are possible. If the desalination conditions comprise thermal methods such as Multiple Effect Evaporation or Multiple Stage Flash Evaporation, then its power-producing turbine can be used as the heating source in the purification plant. In such double-purpose schemes, there will exist a
Thermal Energy Recovery System combined to Power Generating Cycles that denote the structure of the compound.
Thermodynamic approaches aim to apply and adapt the hypothetical knowledge of the synthesis principle, to thermal desalination systems using backpressure turbines.
Maximum Energy Recovery in Desalination Systems
Detoxification procedures isolate water from the saltwater through vaporization. The produce must be in a fluid state; consequently, the created vapor should be condensed. The thermal exchange scheme would be attached to the desolator, to which the fodder, distillate, and waste stream are related. Conversely, an external energy supply and cooling utilities will be required, as well as the strategies for the flow streams involved. Those accessories that allow the effective vapor separation from the brine, its condensation, and later accumulation as a distillate will also be required. Supposing that the cost of accessories and the compartments are not significant compared to the thermal exchange area. Another assumption could be that the mechanic energy for fluid motion is trivial paralleled to the thermal energy consumed in the central heater. Therefore, the most important items for the system synthesis are the heat exchange area and the heat dissipated. Thus, the problem is to find the structure linked to the desolator compound that uses the least amount of utilities per unit of heat exchange area and manufactured distillate (Kotas, 291).
Desalination-MED systems
This tool is built based on evaporation and condensation of the salted water or seawater in numerous stages. It implies that there is an increase in the efficiency of the system because of carrying out intermittent evaporations and condensations. The kind of desalination system has some parts. These parts are heat recovery sections, heat rejection system, and a Thermo-Compressor. The dry vapor from a boiler maintains the necessary energy of the desalination system. There is the transfer of the dry gas from the boiler to the Thermo Compressor where compression occurs after the dry vapor mixes up with the steam from the last heat recovery (Kalogirou, 427).
After mixing and compression of the gasses occurs, the compressed gas mixture goes to the first heat recovery system. As soon as the gas is inside the first heat recovery system the internal steam of the system changes and results in the vapor turning into liquid. The first condensation produces water, and this represents the first water product. This water product is a product of the first heat rejection system. Spraying of seawater on the pipes' group including vapor cools the pipes. The spray of water on pipes' group causes some of the water to evaporate. Given the internal temperature and pressure of the heat recovery system, it is true to say that the quantity of vaporized liquid inside the recovery system matches the volume of liquid that condenses in condensation pipes.
The created vapor in the initial heat recovery system, after going through chambers, goes into the cylinders of the following heat recovery system as the incoming gas. There is the use of seawater to cool the group pipes in the second heat recovery system. In the next stage, this liquid vaporizes and then contracts and the liquid of the following heat recovery system is generated throughout the procedure that is leaving the thermal recovery chamber. This system goes on in the same manner.
Guidance of the exiting heat to the heat rejection system takes place in the last heat recovery system. There is the transfer of the heat from this vapor to the seawater and the use of the same seawater as the feeding water of the system. In the heat rejection system, there is exposure to a significant amount of water to heat transfer, so the seawater never evaporates.
Accurate investigation of the MED desalination systems
After purifying and getting ready for use in the desalination device, salty seawater enters the heat rejection system. In the heat rejection system, there is the transfer of the heat of the outlet vapor from the last heat recovery system to the feeding water and pre-heats it in a way that its temperature increases to ten degrees Celsius. In general, there is division of the entering water to the heat rejection system into two categories in a manner that a section of which is the cooling liquid, is vital to purification process, and enters heat recovery systems. The other part of the entering water that has the role of water coolant is brought back to the sea. There is spraying of pipes with the entering water that handles heating recovery systems. Water vapor passes these pipes with the help of spraying nozzles. The entering water frequently crawls down the tubing as a profuse film. Positioning of the pipes should be horizontal so that better heat transfer occurs. The horizontal positioning of pipes enables water to climb down the pipes as a thick film (Delgado and Pablo, 81).
Liquid remnant's forms in the lower section of each thermal recovery column and go in the other one. The compression of the following thermal recovery chambers is fewer than that of the preceding one given that the hotness of the saline water and the pressure difference of the heat recovery systems, therefore some of the brine flashes, which results in a reduction in the temperature of the ocean. Some of the saline water vaporizes and is supplemented with the gas of the thermal recovery system, which is useful for heat transfer. The leaving saline hot water from the previous thermal recovery chamber is directed back to the sea. Motive steam provides the necessary energy of the system. Motive steam is the gas that a boiler produces, and it typically enters the Thermo-Compressor through pipelines. Thermo-Compressor mixes some of the vapor in the last heat recovery system and forwards it to the first heat recovery system after compressing. This hot air enters the pipes and condensates after spraying seawater on the pipes. The sprayed water evaporates and after passing demisters enters the next heat recovery system because of pressure difference. The quantity of the resulting liquid is greater than that of the vaporization derived from the heater. The rationale could be that some of the gas ...