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Process design and energy requirement for a practical plant are investigated for an energy-saving drying (dewatering) process invented by the authors in 2002 for high-moisture porous materials. The basic concept of the process involves the extraction of water from a high-moisture porous material by bringing it in physical contact with liquefied dimethyl ether (DME) at room temperature. Water content of DME asymptotically increases to the saturation value and the high-moisture porous material is dried almost perfectly. DME from the DME-water mixture is vaporized by decompression. DME and water are separated by flash distillation. DME vapor is compressed and cooled in a heat exchanger, and the latent heat of condensation is reused to vaporize the DME in the heat exchanger. Multistage compression and multistage flash distillation are employed. After compression, the temperature of DME is less than 50 °C. Because specific heat ratio of DME is only 1.11, the energy consumption of the compressor is reduced. Considering the adiabatic efficiency of the compressor and the net thermal efficiency, the total energy for dewatering is about 1100 kJ per 1-kg-water-content of the material being dewatered This process has significant potential and is compact than the existing dewatering processes.
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Kanda, H., Makino, H. & Miyahara, M. Energy-saving drying technology for porous media using liquefied DME gas. Adsorption 14, 467–473 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10450-008-9120-2
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