Thermal performance of multi-stage flash distillation plants in Saudi Arabia

Desalination

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 281-292

  Hamed, Osman A ^a,b   Al Sofi, Mohammad A K ^a,b   Imam, Monazir ^a,b   Mustafa, Ghulam M ^a,b   Ba Mardouf, Khalid ^a,b   Al Washmi, Hamad ^a,b  

^a Research and Development Center   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Saline Water Conversion Center   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Exergy; Exergy flux; Multi stage flash distillation; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

BRINES; DISTILLATION; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; WASTE HEAT UTILIZATION; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

EXERGY ANALYSIS; MULTI-STAGE FLASH (MSF) DISTILLATION PLANTS;

DESALINATION;

DESALINATION PLANT; EXERGY; FLASH DISTILLATION; MULTISTAGE DISTILLATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0034630967     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0011-9164(00)00043-6     Document Type: Article

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