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Sensitivity analysis and Taguchi application in vacuum membrane distillation

  • Upadhyaya, Sushant (Department of Chemical Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology) ;
  • Singh, Kailash (Department of Chemical Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology) ;
  • Chaurasia, Satyendra Prasad (Department of Chemical Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology) ;
  • Baghel, Rakesh (Department of Chemical Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology) ;
  • Singh, Jitendra Kumar (Department of Chemical Engineering, JK Lakshmipat University) ;
  • Dohare, Rajeev Kumar (Department of Chemical Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology)
  • Received : 2017.02.11
  • Accepted : 2018.07.23
  • Published : 2018.11.25
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Abstract

In this work, desalination experiments were performed on vacuum membrane distillation (VMD). Process parameters such as feed flow rate, vacuum degree on permeate side, feed bulk temperature and feed salt concentration were optimized using sensitivity analysis and Taguchi method. The optimum values of process parameters were found to be 2 lpm of feed flow rate, $60^{\circ}C$ of feed bulk temperature, 5.5 kPa of permeate-side pressure and 5000 ppm of salt concentration. The permeate flux at these conditions was obtained as $26.6kg/m^2{\cdot}hr$. The rejection of salt in permeate was found to be 99.7%. The percent contribution of various process parameters using ANOVA results indicated that the most important parameter is feed bulk temperature with its contribution of 95%. The ANOVA results indicate that the percent contribution of permeate pressure gets increased to 5.384% in the range of 2 to 7 kPa as compared to 0.045% in the range of 5.5 to 7 kPa.

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