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Innovative Fresh Water Production Process for Fossil Fuel Plants,
Annual Report for September 30, 2002 to September 30, 2003

James F. Klausner
Renwei Mei

University of Florida

In this pdf format, this document has 52 pages and is 1.37MB.

Table of Contents

1.0

Introduction 1
  1.1 Humidification Dehumidification Processes 2
1.2 DDD Process Description 2

2.0

Thermodynamic Analysis of the DDD Process 5
 

2.1

Application to the Electric Power Industry 15

3.0

Diffusion Tower Design, Analysis, and Optimization 16
  3.1 Heat and Mass Transfer Model for the Diffusion Tower 17
3.2 Computational Analysis 22
3.3 Comparison of Diffusion Driven Desalination with Multistage Flash Evaporation and Reverse Osmosis Technologies 36

4.0

Experimental Facility 38
 

4.1

Description of Individual Components 40
5.0 Completed Tasks 47
6.0 Summary 47
7.0 References 48
8.0 Nomenclature 49