Liang, Y. Y. and Weihs, G. A. Fimbres and Wiley, D. E. (2020) Comparison of oscillating flow and slip velocity mass transfer enhancement in spacer-filled membrane channels: CFD analysis and validation. Journal of Membrane Science, 593. pp. 1-9. ISSN 0376-7388. (Published)
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Abstract
Unsteady shear methods have the potential to generate flow perturbations near the membrane surface, which play an important role in reducing concentration polarisation and fouling tendency. In general, there are two main approaches for generating time-varying flow perturbations: 1) generating oscillations in the bulk flow; or 2) forcing a slip velocity near the membrane surface. This paper presents a detailed comparison study of both approaches by means of two-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. The results show that both approaches result in significant increases in flux and maximum wall shear at the same disturbance resonant frequency and Reynolds number. This suggests that the mechanism by which the flow perturbations are generated is not as important as the perturbation frequency, in terms of increasing wall shear and permeate flux. However, it is more important to perturb flow near the membrane surface because it reduces energy consumption compared to oscillating flow approach. In addition, this paper confirms that a white noise perturbation can be used to simplify the approach for maximising vortex-shedding-induced mass transfer enhancement, without the need to identify the peak/resonant frequency for the flow in spacer-filled membrane channels at the expense of a higher pressure loss.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Indexed by Scopus |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | CFD; Flow perturbation; Slip velocity; Oscillating flow; White noise perturbation |
| Subjects: | T Technology > TP Chemical technology |
| Faculty/Division: | Centre of Excellence: Centre of Excellence for Advanced Research in Fluid Flow Faculty of Chemical & Natural Resources Engineering Institute of Postgraduate Studies |
| Depositing User: | Mrs Norsaini Abdul Samat |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Dec 2019 02:01 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Dec 2019 01:50 |
| URI: | http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/26600 |
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