Design and Application of Thermal Vapor Compressor for Multi-Effect Desalination Plant

열증기압축기 설계와 MED 담수설비에의 적용

A thermal vapor compressor in which the subsonic/supersonic flow appears simultaneously, has been accurately designed through the CFD analysis for the various shape parameters such as the primary nozzle shape, converging duct shape. mixing tube diameter, and so on. The performance of the developed thermal vapor compressor has been experimentally verified to be installed in a Multi Effect Desalination(MED) plant as an important element, In this paper, the experimental results for Various boundary conditions(motive pressure, suction pressure, and discharge pressure) are presented in comparing with CFD results. The two results show a good agreement with each other within 3.5 % accuracy with regard to the entrainment ratio.