Dual-purpose desalination plants. Part I. Optimal design

Desalination

Volumn 153, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 179-184

  Mussati, Sergio ^a   Aguirre, Pio ^a   Scenna, Nicolas ^a  

^a El INGAR Instituto de Desarollo y Diseno   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Distillate desalination system; Dual purpose plant; NLP model; Optimal design

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION;

DESALINATION PLANTS;

DESALINATION;

DESALINATION PLANT; DESIGN; DISTILLATION; OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 0037985556     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0011-9164(02)01124-4     Document Type: Article

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