Performance of sweeping gas membrane distillation for treating produced water: Modeling and experiments

Thakur, Amit K.; Hsieh, I-Min; Islam, Md R.; Lin, Boson; Chen, Chau-Chyun; Malmali, Mahdi

doi:10.1016/j.desal.2020.114597

Title: Performance of sweeping gas membrane distillation for treating produced water: Modeling and experiments

Abstract

Membrane distillation (MD) has shown promise for desalination of produced water (PW), but there are very few studies reported on the performance of MD with real PW and the characteristics of the fouling and scaling in MD. Among different MD configurations, sweeping gas MD (SGMD) is the least studied configuration. Here we report the application of SGMD for treating high-salinity PW (123 g L^-1). The SGMD operating conditions were first carefully optimized through pure water MD experiments by varying operating conditions. The flux evaluation was accompanied by a detailed Aspen Custom Modeler simulation based on the electrolyte-NRTL thermodynamic model to better understand the heat and mass transfer in the feed and permeate channel. Supported by experiments, modeling results confirmed the partial condensation of the vapor in the permeate channel. Furthermore, it was concluded that the saturation of the sweeping gas is controlling the overall mass transfer through the membrane. Selected membranes and optimized conditions were then used to conduct short-term and long-term performance tests with PW. In long-term MD test, the concentration of the PW increased by a factor of two (50% water recovery), while the membrane exhibited small flux decline. Elemental analysis showed that strontium and sodium were themore » major scalant compounds.« less

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Thakur, Amit K. ^[1]; Hsieh, I-Min ^[1]; Islam, Md R. ^[1]; Lin, Boson ^[1]; Chen, Chau-Chyun ^[1]; Malmali, Mahdi ^[1]

Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX (United States). Dept. of Chemical Engineering

Publication Date:: Thu Jul 23 00:00:00 EDT 2020

Research Org.:: American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), New York, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)

OSTI Identifier:: 1848618

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1642343

Grant/Contract Number:: EE0007888

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Desalination

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 492; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0011-9164

Publisher:: Elsevier

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 42 ENGINEERING; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Engineering; Water Resources; Membrane Distillation; Sweeping Gas; Produced Water; High Salinity; Scaling; Modeling

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                    Thakur, Amit K., Hsieh, I-Min, Islam, Md R., Lin, Boson, Chen, Chau-Chyun, and Malmali, Mahdi. Performance of sweeping gas membrane distillation for treating produced water: Modeling and experiments.  United States: N. p., 2020. 
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                    Thakur, Amit K., Hsieh, I-Min, Islam, Md R., Lin, Boson, Chen, Chau-Chyun, & Malmali, Mahdi. Performance of sweeping gas membrane distillation for treating produced water: Modeling and experiments.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2020.114597

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"Performance of sweeping gas membrane distillation for treating produced water: Modeling and experiments".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2020.114597.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1848618.

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@article{osti_1848618,

  title        = {Performance of sweeping gas membrane distillation for treating produced water: Modeling and experiments},

  author       = {Thakur, Amit K. and Hsieh, I-Min and Islam, Md R. and Lin, Boson and Chen, Chau-Chyun and Malmali, Mahdi},

  abstractNote = {Membrane distillation (MD) has shown promise for desalination of produced water (PW), but there are very few studies reported on the performance of MD with real PW and the characteristics of the fouling and scaling in MD. Among different MD configurations, sweeping gas MD (SGMD) is the least studied configuration. Here we report the application of SGMD for treating high-salinity PW (123 g L-1). The SGMD operating conditions were first carefully optimized through pure water MD experiments by varying operating conditions. The flux evaluation was accompanied by a detailed Aspen Custom Modeler simulation based on the electrolyte-NRTL thermodynamic model to better understand the heat and mass transfer in the feed and permeate channel. Supported by experiments, modeling results confirmed the partial condensation of the vapor in the permeate channel. Furthermore, it was concluded that the saturation of the sweeping gas is controlling the overall mass transfer through the membrane. Selected membranes and optimized conditions were then used to conduct short-term and long-term performance tests with PW. In long-term MD test, the concentration of the PW increased by a factor of two (50% water recovery), while the membrane exhibited small flux decline. Elemental analysis showed that strontium and sodium were the major scalant compounds.},

  doi          = {10.1016/j.desal.2020.114597},

  journal      = {Desalination},

  number       = C,

  volume       = 492,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Thu Jul 23 00:00:00 EDT 2020},

  month        = {Thu Jul 23 00:00:00 EDT 2020}

}

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Selecting membranes for treating hydraulic fracturing produced waters by membrane distillation
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Recovery of volatile fruit juice aroma compounds by membrane technology: Sweeping gas versus vacuum membrane distillation
journal, July 2011

Impact of module design on heat transfer in membrane distillation
journal, March 2020

A general predictive model for sweeping gas membrane distillation
journal, October 2018

Computational study of sweeping gas membrane distillation process – Flux performance and polarization characteristics
journal, July 2020

Nature of flow on sweeping gas membrane distillation
journal, May 2000

Feasibility of sweeping gas membrane distillation on concentrating triethylene glycol from waste streams
journal, December 2016

Electrothermally Driven Membrane Distillation for Low-Energy Consumption and Wetting Mitigation
journal, October 2019

Scaling mitigation in membrane distillation: From superhydrophobic to slippery
journal, September 2019

Heat and mass transfer in membrane distillation
journal, October 1987

Sweep gas membrane distillation in a membrane contactor with metallic hollow-fibers
journal, November 2015

Effect of pore size distribution and air flux on mass transport in direct contact membrane distillation
journal, April 2003

Separation of binary mixtures by thermostatic sweeping gas membrane distillation
journal, April 2002

Theory and experiments on sweeping gas membrane distillation
journal, February 2000

Heat transport and membrane distillation coefficients in direct contact membrane distillation
journal, February 2003

Thermodynamic representation of the NaCl+Na2SO4+H2O system with electrolyte NRTL model
journal, July 2011

Performance Comparison between Polyvinylidene Fluoride and Polytetrafluoroethylene Hollow Fiber Membranes for Direct Contact Membrane Distillation
journal, April 2019

Membrane air-stripping of aroma compounds
journal, June 2006