Correlations (updated) for predicting the flow through MSF plant interstage orifices

Desalination

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 209-216

  Lior, Noam ^a   Chung, Richard ^a   Miyatake, Osamu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b KYUSHU ELECTRIC POWER CO INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

MSF plants; Orifice flow; Sluice gate flow; Sluice hydraulic jumps

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ORIFICES;

INTERSTAGE ORIFICES;

DESALINATION;

DESALINATION; MULTISTAGE FLASH DISTILLATION; ORIFICE FLOW; PREDICTION MODEL; SLUICE GATE;

EID: 0037850811     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0011-9164(02)01013-5     Document Type: Article

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