@Article{hmt.16.16,
AUTHOR = {Changming Ling, Xiaobo Lou, Yin Zhong},
TITLE = {AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON A NEW HIGH-EFFICIENT  SUPERCHARGER FOR SEAWATER REVERSE OSMOSIS  DESALINATION DRIVEN DIRECTLY BY TIDAL ENERGY},
JOURNAL = {Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer},
VOLUME = {16},
YEAR = {2021},
NUMBER = {1},
PAGES = {1--6},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/fhmt/v16n1/52535},
ISSN = {2151-8629},
ABSTRACT = {To solve the issues of high-energetic consumption, high-cost and high-carbon emissions in the processes of reverse osmosis seawater desalination 
technology, this study proposed and implemented a tidal energy-gathering supercharger with the concept of using green tidal energy to directly 
produce high-pressure-seawater-driven reverse osmosis seawater desalination system. Compared with the traditional way of using tidal energy to 
produce electric power in order to produce high-pressure water for the system, this technology could save energy that may lost in two transferring 
process thus can improve the energy efficiency of the whole system, lower its running cost, and realize the green production concept of zero carbon 
emission. To study the differences of influences on energy-gathering supercharger caused between two types of tidal energy usage, comparison had 
been made under conditions of fixed work seawater flow and fixed-work seawater circuit opening adjustment. The results show that compared with 
the traditional tidal energy-driven electricity generation, adaptive-frequency and high-efficient energy-gathering supercharge experimental system 
that suits tidal changes can increase the use efficiency of tidal energy, make energy-gathering supercharger absorb more tidal energy thus produce 
more high-pressure water.},
DOI = {10.5098/hmt.16.16}
}