Single-effect thermal vapor-compression desalination process: Thermal analysis

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 52-68

  El Dessouky, Hisham ^a   Ettouney, Hisham ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION EFFECTS; COOLING WATER; FLOW OF WATER; FOULING; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE DROP; SALTS; SEAWATER; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

BOILING POINT; THERMAL VAPOR-COMPRESSION (TVC) DESALINATION;

DESALINATION;

EID: 0032686638     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: 15210537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014576399271583     Document Type: Article

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