A Facile Ultrapure Water Production Method for Electrolysis via Multilayered Photovoltaic/Membrane Distillation

Damian Amiruddin; Devinder Mahajan; Dufei Fang; Wenbin Wang; Peng Wang; Benjamin S. Hsiao

doi:10.3390/en16155765

A Facile Ultrapure Water Production Method for Electrolysis via Multilayered Photovoltaic/Membrane Distillation

Damian Amiruddin, Devinder Mahajan, Dufei Fang, Wenbin Wang, Peng Wang, Benjamin S. Hsiao

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Ultrapure water production is vital for sustainable green hydrogen production by electrolysis. The current industrial process to generate ultrapure water involves energy-intensive processes, such as reverse osmosis. This study demonstrates a facile method to produce ultrapure water from simulated seawater using a low capital cost and low-energy-consuming membrane distillation (MD) approach that is driven by the waste heat from photovoltaic (PV) panels. To optimize the PV-MD operation, modeling efforts to design a multilayered MD system were carried out. The results were used to guide the construction of several prototype devices using different materials. The best performing PV-MD device, containing evaporation and condensation regions made from steel sheets and polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) membranes, can produce high-purity water with conductivity less than 40 mS and flux higher than 100 g/m2 h, which is suitable for typical electrolyzer use.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	5765
Journal	Energies
Volume	16
Issue number	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/en16155765
State	Published - Aug 2 2023

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