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Emerging Research Opportunities in Energy Manufacturing

Emerging Research Opportunities in Energy Manufacturing. G. Glenn Lipscomb Chemical & Environmental Engineering, University of Toledo NSF CMMI Research and Innovation Conference Membrane and Module Manufacture Tuesday, 4 January 2011 Atlanta, GA. Outline. Membrane Separations

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Emerging Research Opportunities in Energy Manufacturing

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  1. Emerging Research Opportunities in Energy Manufacturing G. Glenn Lipscomb Chemical & Environmental Engineering, University of Toledo NSF CMMI Research and Innovation Conference Membrane and Module Manufacture Tuesday, 4 January 2011 Atlanta, GA

  2. Outline Membrane Separations Flat Sheet/Spiral Wound Modules Hollow Fiber/Module Manufacture Module Efficiencies Large Applications

  3. Desalination Ashkelon SWRO Plant 100 million m3/y http://www.water-technology.net/projects/israel/

  4. Desalination Review of the Desalination and Water Purification Technology Roadmap; http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10912.html

  5. Desalination Wade, Desalination 136 (2001) 3–12 Busch & Mickols, Desalination 165 (2004) 299-312

  6. Blue Energy – Reverse ED/PRO http://www.wetsus.nl/

  7. CO2 Capture Pre-combustion Oxygen ionic conducting perovskite type membranes Air Products BP-Amoco-Praxair Post-combustion Polymeric CO2 selective Membranes MTR

  8. Membrane Separations http://www.environmental-expert.com/stse_resulteach_product.aspx?cid=21795&idproduct=32902&codi=32902

  9. Membrane Separations http://www.egr.msu.edu/~steffe/handbook/fig643.html

  10. Thin-film Composite Membranes http://www.trisep.com/elements/Tech Support/How a Membrane is Made.pdf

  11. Flat Sheet Membrane Manufacture Baker, Membrane Technology and Applications, 2nd Edition, Wiley, 2004

  12. Membrane Casting and Coating Membrane casting Membrane coating http://www.gkss.de/institute/polymer_research/structure/geestacht/equipment/membranes/index.html.en

  13. Spiral Wound Modules Seal Collection Tube Permeate Reject Feed Case

  14. Spiral Wound Modules

  15. Spiral Wound Modules

  16. Spiral Wound Modules

  17. Spiral Wound Modules “Leaf” or “Envelope”

  18. Spiral Wound Modules

  19. Spiral Wound Modules

  20. Spiral Wound Modules

  21. Spiral Wound Modules

  22. 6,190,557 Hisada & Nishida, Nitto Denko, 2001. 3,417,870 Bray, Gulf General Atomic, 1968.

  23. Hollow Fiber Membranes http://www.appliedmembranes.com/ultrafiltration_uf_systems.htm http://www.matrix-membranes.com/ http://www.microfiltration.nl/hollow_fiber.php

  24. Hollow Fiber Membrane Manufacture United States Patent 6802973 http://eng.clima.org.cn/Machine/polyster_staple_fibre_production_line/polyester_staple_fibre_production_line_84.html

  25. Cooling Induced Phase Separation Evaporation Cd, T Ri Ro

  26. Induced Phase Separation Thermal (TIPS) Diffusion (DIPS) Hypothesis: Concentration gradient predictor of pore size and porosity asymmetry

  27. Hollow Fiber Modules

  28. External Shell Ports Lumen Port Lumen Port Seal Lumen Headspace

  29. 5,598,874 Alei et al., MG Generon, 1997.

  30. Module Inefficiencies

  31. Flow Distribution Effects – Header Lumen-side Shell-side J. Park & H. Chang, AIChEJ, 32, 1937 (1986).

  32. Lumen-side Shell-side Flow Distribution Effects – Bundle Variation in transport properties has similar effect

  33. Flow Distribution Effects – Bundle • From shell header Distribution introduces RTD and cross flow regions

  34. Shell-side Mass Transfer Coefficients packing fraction=0.26, Sc=1000

  35. CT Imaging

  36. Fluid Introduction into Module S.S. Concentration/Packing Comparison Concentration packing field Fiber packing field Z = 4 cm from dialysate feed port

  37. Fluid Introduction into Module

  38. CFD Simulations

  39. CFD Simulations

  40. Challenges http://www.natcogroup.com/ Increase membrane line rates Metallic, ceramic, mixed matrix materials Efficient counter-current contacting Linear scaling/larger modules

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