Abstract
Ultrapure water production is vital for sustainable green hydrogen production by electrolysis. The current industrial process to generate ultrapure water involves energy-intensive processes, such as reverse osmosis. This study demonstrates a facile method to produce ultrapure water from simulated seawater using a low capital cost and low-energy-consuming membrane distillation (MD) approach that is driven by the waste heat from photovoltaic (PV) panels. To optimize the PV-MD operation, modeling efforts to design a multilayered MD system were carried out. The results were used to guide the construction of several prototype devices using different materials. The best performing PV-MD device, containing evaporation and condensation regions made from steel sheets and polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) membranes, can produce high-purity water with conductivity less than 40 mS and flux higher than 100 g/m2 h, which is suitable for typical electrolyzer use.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 5765 |
| Journal | Energies |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue number | 15 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 2 2023 |
Bibliographical note
KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2023-08-07Acknowledgements: This work was financially supported by the Office of Naval Research through a joint grant to Stony Brook University and University of Massachusetts at Lowell (SBU-UML-ONR: N00014-22-1-2001 and N00014-23-1-2124).
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Computer Science
