Abstract
Nowadays, in dry and rural areas, solar-powered membrane distillation (SPMD) technology is considered a feasiblemeans for the production of pure water from brackish water. Prior to the design and construction of a SPMD pilot plant, there is a need to predict its performance theoretically by means of a computational simulation program. Unlike previous approaches followed by other investigators to develop a mathematical model that can describe the components of a SPMD pilot plant, the developed mathematical model in this study is based on the fact that the SPMD process by nature is unsteady. The performance of a proposed SPMD pilot plant is then obtained by means of a numerical solution of the model with the aid of a simulation computer program. The results reveal that the proposed SPMD pilot plant has some unique features, which differ from a similar MD process operated at steady-state conditions in a … إجمالي الاقتباسات تم اقتباسها في عدد: 130