Water treatment system of coupling heat pump with multi-effect evaporation and operating method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11940187-B2
Application number	US-202218034067-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 11, 2022
Priority date	Nov 15, 2021
Publication date	Mar 26, 2024
Grant date	Mar 26, 2024

Abstract

A water treatment system of coupling a heat pump with multi-effect evaporation that comprises a lithium bromide absorption-type heat pump circulation system, a multi-effect evaporation circulation system and a compression-type heat pump circulation system is provided. The vapor in a tail-end evaporator of the multi-effect evaporation circulation system is introduced into a generator in the absorption-type heat pump to release heat and condense. A dilute solution in an absorber of the absorption-type heat pump is introduced into a first-effect evaporator to be evaporated by a treated water, and a condensation heat of the vapor generated by the generator of the absorption-type heat pump is recovered by an evaporator of a compressor heat pump, and another air source evaporator absorbs heat from ambient air to supply heat for the generator by a heat pump condenser.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A water treatment system of coupling a heat pump with multi-effect evaporation, comprising a multi-effect evaporation circulation system, a lithium bromide absorption-type heat pump circulation system and a compression-type heat pump circulation system, wherein the multi-effect evaporation circulation system includes a first centrifugal pump ( 1 ), a pre-heater ( 2 ), a first-effect evaporator ( 3 ), a first pressure reducing valve ( 4 ), and a second-effect evaporator ( 5 ); water to be treated is connected to an inlet of the first centrifugal pump ( 1 ) through a pipeline, an outlet of the first centrifugal pump ( 1 ) is connected to an inlet (a 1 ) of the pre-heater ( 2 ) through a pipeline, an outlet (a 2 ) of the pre-heater ( 2 ) is connected to a solution inlet (b 1 ) of the first-effect evaporator ( 3 ) through a pipeline, a solution outlet (b 2 ) of the first-effect evaporator ( 3 ) is connected to a solution inlet (c 1 ) of the second-effect evaporator ( 5 ) through the first pressure reducing valve ( 4 ), and a concentrated solution in the second-effect evaporator ( 5 ) is discharged from a concentrated solution outlet (c 2 ), a vapor outlet (b 5 ) of the first-effect evaporator ( 3 ) is connected to a vapor inlet (c 3 ) of the second-effect evaporator ( 5 ) through a pipeline, and a condensed water outlet (c 4 ) of the second-effect evaporator ( 5 ) is connected to a condensed water inlet (a 3 ) of the pre-heater ( 2 ) through a pipeline, and a condensed water in the pre-heater ( 2 ) is discharged from an outlet (a 4 );
the lithium bromide absorption-type heat pump circulation system includes a generator ( 6 ), a condenser ( 7 ), a second centrifugal pump ( 8 ), a first evaporator ( 9 ), an absorber ( 10 ), a solution heat exchanger ( 11 ), a third centrifugal pump ( 12 ), and a second pressure reducing valve ( 13 ), a vapor inlet (d 1 ) of the generator ( 6 ) is connected to a vapor outlet (c 5 ) of the second-effect evaporator ( 5 ) through a pipeline, a condensed water of the generator ( 6 ) is discharged from an outlet (d 2 ), an upper vapor outlet (d 6 ) of the generator ( 6 ) is connected to a vapor inlet (e 1 ) of the condenser ( 7 ), an outlet (e 2 ) of the condenser ( 7 ) is connected to a water inlet (f 1 ) of the first evaporator ( 9 ) through pipelines via the second centrifugal pump ( 8 ), a vapor outlet (f 2 ) of the first evaporator ( 9 ) is connected to a top vapor inlet (g 1 ) of the absorber ( 10 ), a bottom concentrated solution outlet (d 7 ) of the generator ( 6 ) is connected to an inlet (h 3 ) of the solution heat exchanger ( 11 ) via the third centrifugal pump ( 12 ), an outlet (h 4 ) of the solution heat exchanger ( 11 ) is connected to a solution inlet (g 2 ) of the absorber ( 10 ), a solution inlet (h 1 ) of the solution heat exchanger ( 11 ) is connected to a solution outlet (b 4 ) of the first-effect evaporator ( 3 ) through a pipeline, a solution outlet (h 2 ) of the solution heat exchanger ( 11 ) is connected to a solution inlet (d 5 ) of the generator ( 6 ) via the second pressure reducing valve ( 13 ), and a dilute solution outlet (g 3 ) of the absorber ( 10 ) is connected to an inlet (b 3 ) of the first-effect evaporator ( 3 ); and
the compression-type heat pump circulation system includes a compressor ( 14 ), a fourth centrifugal pump ( 15 ), a second evaporator ( 16 ), a third evaporator ( 17 ), a first throttle valve ( 18 ), a second throttle valve ( 19 ), and an evaporation pressure regulating valve ( 20 ), an outlet of the compressor ( 14 ) is connected to both a refrigerant inlet (d 4 ) of the generator ( 6 ) and a refrigerant inlet (f 3 ) of the first evaporator ( 9 ), a refrigerant outlet (d 3 ) of the generator ( 6 ) and a refrigerant outlet (f 4 ) of the first evaporator ( 9 ) are converged by pipelines, and then connected to both an inlet of a first cut-off valve ( 23 ) and an inlet of the first throttle valve ( 18 ), an outlet of the first throttle valve ( 18 ) is connected to a solution inlet (i 1 ) of the second evaporator ( 16 ), a solution outlet (i 2 ) of the second evaporator ( 16 ) is connected to an inlet of the evaporation pressure regulating valve ( 20 ), an outlet of the first cut-off valve ( 23 ) is connected to an inlet of the second throttle valve ( 19 ) through a pipeline, an outlet of the second throttle valve ( 19 ) is connected to an inlet of the third evaporator ( 17 ), an outlet of the third evaporator ( 17 ) and an outlet of the evaporation pressure regulating valve ( 20 ) are jointly connected to the compressor ( 14 ) through pipelines, an outlet of the fourth centrifugal pump ( 15 ) is connected to an outlet (e 3 ) of the condenser ( 7 ), an outlet (e 4 ) of the condenser ( 7 ) is connected to an inlet (i 4 ) of the second evaporator ( 16 ), and an outlet (i 3 ) of the second evaporator ( 16 ) is connected to an inlet of the fourth centrifugal pump ( 15 ).

2. The water treatment system of coupling the heat pump with the multi-effect evaporation according to claim 1 , wherein a first temperature controller ( 21 ) is disposed on a pipeline at the outlet (i 3 ) of the second evaporator ( 16 ), a control signal of the first temperature controller ( 21 ) is connected to the first throttle valve ( 18 ) through a wire, a second temperature controller ( 22 ) is disposed at the inlet of the compressor ( 14 ), and a control signal of the second temperature controller ( 22 ) is connected to the second throttle valve ( 19 ) through a wire.

3. The water treatment system of coupling the heat pump with the multi-effect evaporation according to claim 2 , wherein an outlet of the compressor ( 14 ) is further connected to the inlet of the third evaporator ( 17 ) through a second cut-off valve ( 24 ).

4. The water treatment system of coupling the heat pump with the multi-effect evaporation according to claim 2 , wherein a heat pump circulation working medium in the compression-type heat pump circulation system is a working medium for implementing a condensation temperature from 55° C. to 75° C. and an evaporation temperature from −5° C. to 35° C.

5. The water treatment system of coupling the heat pump with the multi-effect evaporation according to claim 2 , wherein the third evaporator ( 17 ) is an air source evaporator.

6. The water treatment system of coupling the heat pump with the multi-effect evaporation according to claim 2 , wherein the first throttle valve ( 18 ) and the second throttle valve ( 19 ) are externally balanced type thermal expansion valves or electronic expansion valves, when the first throttle valve ( 18 ) and the second throttle valve ( 19 ) are the externally balanced type thermal expansion valves, the first temperature controller ( 21 ) and the second temperature controller ( 22 ) are temperature sensing bulbs of thermal expansion valves correspondingly.

7. An operating method for the water treatment system of coupling the heat pump with the multi-effect evaporation according to claim 2 , comprising:
providing an aqueous solution to be treated; and
opening the first pressure reducing valve ( 4 ), the second pressure reducing valve ( 13 ), and the first cut-off valve ( 23 ),
wherein the aqueous solution to be treated enters the first centrifugal pump ( 1 ) for pressurizing, then enters the first-effect evaporator ( 3 ) from the solution inlet (b 1 ) after preheating by the pre-heater ( 2 ), vapor generated by heating the aqueous solution to be treated in the first-effect evaporator ( 3 ) flows into the second-effect evaporator ( 5 ) from the top outlet (b 5 ) of the first-effect evaporator ( 3 ) through the vapor inlet (c 3 ), the unevaporated water flows out of the outlet (b 2 ) of the first-effect evaporator ( 3 ), depressurized by the first pressure reducing valve ( 4 ), and then continuously

Assignees

• Univ Jiangsu Science & Tech

Inventors

• Shen Jiubing
• Jiang Lele
• Wei Wenbin
• Chen Yang

Classifications

• F25B25/02 Primary

  Compression-sorption machines, plants, or systems · CPC title

• B01D1/0082

  Regulation; Control · CPC title

• B01D1/26

  Multiple-effect evaporating · CPC title

• B01D3/007 Primary

  Energy recuperation; Heat pumps · CPC title

• B01D5/006

  with evaporation or distillation · CPC title