"Multi-objective optimization of a direct contact membrane distillation" by Jingjing Liu, Wenye Lin et al.
Improving the performance of direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) for liquid desiccant regeneration has attracted increasing attention. This paper presents multi-objective optimization of a DCMD regenerator to maximize its regeneration capacity (RC) and thermal efficiency (TE) simultaneously when treating a 25–30 wt.% lithium chloride desiccant solution. The key parameters, including initial feed concentration, feed and distillate inlet temperatures and volumetric flow rate were optimized using two methods (i.e. non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-Ⅱ) based method and a fuz...