A review of recent advances in adsorption desalination technologies. (November 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Riaz, Nadia; Sultan, Muhammad; Miyazaki, Takahiko; Shahzad, Muhammad Wakil; Farooq, Muhammad; Sajjad, Uzair; Niaz, Yasir
• Is Part Of: International communications in heat and mass transfer. Volume 128(2021)
• Publication Date: 2021-11
• Subjects: Adsorption desalination -- Adsorbent-adsorbate pairs -- Technologies -- Economic aspects -- System performance; Heat -- Transmission -- Periodicals; Mass transfer -- Periodicals; Chaleur -- Transmission -- Périodiques; Transfert de masse -- Périodiques; Heat -- Transmission; Mass transfer; Periodicals; 621.4022
• DOI: 10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2021.105594
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0735-1933

Abstract

Abstract: Adsorption-based desalination (AD) is an emerging concept to co-generate distilled fresh water and cooling applications. The present study is aimed to provide a comprehensive review of the adsorption desalination systems and subsequent hybridization with known conventional cycles such as the multiple-effect AD (MED), solar regenerable, integrated evaporator-condenser cascaded, and ejector integrated systems. The systems are investigated for energy consumption, productivity enhancement, and performance parameters, including production cost, daily water production, and performance coefficient. Comprehensive economic aspects, future challenges, and future progress of the technologies are discussed accordingly to pave researchers' paths for technological innovation. Traditional AD systems can produce specific daily water production of 25 kg per kg of adsorbent. The solar adsorption desalination-cooling (ADC) showed a promising specific cooling power of 112 W/kg along with a COP of 0.45. Furthermore, for a hybrid MEDAD cycle, the gain output ratio (GOR) and performance ratio (PR) is found to be 40%, along with an augmented water production rate from 60% to two folds. The AD technology could manage the high salinity feed water with the production of low salinity water with a reasonable cost of US$0.2/m 3 .