dc.contributor.author | McLafferty, Victor | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-11T15:14:58Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-06-11T15:14:58Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-06-11T15:14:58Z | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/73966 | |
dc.description.abstract | The energy efficiency, heat exchanger area requirements, and solids handling performance of Mechanical Vapour Compression (MVC) evaporation were compared to a proposed evaporator configuration called Mechanical Vapour Compression Flash Distillation (MVC-FD). Steady-state models were developed for both systems, and their thermal performance was compared. It was found that the MVC-FD configuration significantly increases specific energy consumption and heat exchanger requirements when compared to the standard MVC configuration. A steady-state bulk fouling model was developed for CaSO4-H2O-NaCl to determine whether fouling is reduced using the MVC-FD configuration. It was found that fouling is increased in this system due to the solubility properties of CaSO4. Fouling was also examined for the NaCl-H2O fluid system. It was found that the fouling can be substantially reduced by the MVC-FD system because fouling in this system is driven primarily by liquid volume change. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | Mechanical Vapour Compression | en_US |
dc.subject | Scaling | en_US |
dc.subject | Evaporation | en_US |
dc.subject | Fouling | en_US |
dc.subject | Heat Exchanger | en_US |
dc.title | Comparison of Mechanical Vapour Compression Evaporator Technologies | en_US |
dc.date.defence | 2018-04-20 | |
dc.contributor.department | Department of Process Engineering and Applied Science | en_US |
dc.contributor.degree | Master of Applied Science | en_US |
dc.contributor.external-examiner | Dr. Dominic Groulx | en_US |
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinator | Dr. Suzanne Budge | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | Dr. Stephen Kuzak | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisor | Dr. Jan Haelssig | en_US |
dc.contributor.ethics-approval | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.manuscripts | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.copyright-release | Not Applicable | en_US |