Evaluating the emerging adsorbents for water production potential and thermodynamic limits of adsorption-based atmospheric water harvesting systems

Muhammad Aleem; Muhammad Sultan; Muhammad Farooq; Fahid Riaz; Sobhy M. Yakout; Md Shamim Ahamed; Hafiz M. Asfahan; Uzair Sajjad; Muhammad Imran; Muhammad W. Shahzad

doi:10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2023.106863

Evaluating the emerging adsorbents for water production potential and thermodynamic limits of adsorption-based atmospheric water harvesting systems

Muhammad Aleem
, Muhammad Sultan^*
, Muhammad Farooq
, Fahid Riaz
, Sobhy M. Yakout
, Md Shamim Ahamed
, Hafiz M. Asfahan
, Uzair Sajjad
, Muhammad Imran
, Muhammad W. Shahzad

^*Corresponding author for this work

Bahauddin Zakariya University
University of Engineering and Technology Lahore
Abu Dhabi University
College of Sciences
University of California Davis
National Taipei University of Technology
University of Northumbria Newcastle

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In the context of global water scarcity, adsorption-based atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) is an emerging technology for providing potable water at anytime/anywhere. In this regard, the study evaluates silica-gel, zeolite, ionogel, polymer, membrane, and metal-organic framework based ten kinds of emerging adsorbents for the AWH systems. A thermodynamic modeling framework comprising of adsorption equilibrium models and governing steady-state equations is performed. Performance of AWH systems is always judged on water production potential (WPP), energy consumption (EC) whereas thermodynamic correctness can be measured by first (η_I) and second law (η_II) efficiencies. Thereby, the adsorbents are evaluated from perspectives of WPP, EC, η_I and η_II. As per results, ionogel based adsorbent enables maximum WPP ranging up to 1.55 kg/kg/cycle, EC of 4214.96 kJ/kg_w/cycle, η_I of 0.54, and η_II of 0.21. Whereas MIL-101(Cr) observe WPP ranging up to 0.87 kg/kg/cycle, EC of 4499.84 kJ/kg_w/cycle, η_I of 0.50, and η_II of 0.19. Parametric analyses results show that η_I of ionogel and MIL-101(Cr) can be increased up to 0.65 and 0.69 while η_II up to 0.23 and 0.25, respectively. Furthermore, η_I and η_II of dual-stage system can improve by 33% as compared to single-stage that can improve by 68-74% as compared to vapor compression system.

Original language	English
Article number	106863
Number of pages	32
Journal	International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer
Volume	145
Early online date	7 Jun 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2023.106863
Publication status	Published - 30 Jun 2023

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Copyright © 2023, Elsevier. This accepted manuscript version is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Funding

The authors extend their appreciation to the Deputyship for Research and Innovation, “Ministry of Education” in Saudi Arabia for funding this research work through the project no. ( IFKSUOR3–146–1 ). The authors extend their appreciation to the Deputyship for Research and Innovation, “Ministry of Education” in Saudi Arabia for funding this research work through the project no. ( IFKSUOR3–146–1 ). Authors acknowledge financial support from Abu Dhabi University's Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. This research work has been carried out in the Department of Agricultural Engineering, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan-Pakistan with the support of BZU-ORIC Grant 2020-21.

Funders	Funder number
BZU-ORIC	2020-21
Ministry of Education – Kingdom of Saudi Arabi	IFKSUOR3–146–1

UN SDGs

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SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation
SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Keywords

Emerging adsorbents
Energy consumption
First law efficiency
Second law efficiency
Thermodynamic modeling framework
Water production potential

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Evaluating the emerging adsorbents for water production potential and thermodynamic limits of adsorption-based atmospheric water harvesting systems
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Aleem, M., Sultan, M., Farooq, M., Riaz, F., Yakout, S. M., Ahamed, M. S., Asfahan, H. M., Sajjad, U., Imran, M., & Shahzad, M. W. (2023). Evaluating the emerging adsorbents for water production potential and thermodynamic limits of adsorption-based atmospheric water harvesting systems. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 145, Article 106863. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2023.106863

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