Low grade heat driven multi-effect distillation technology

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 54, Issue 25-26, 2011, Pages 5497-5503

  Wang, Xiaolin ^a,b   Christ, Alexander ^a,b   Regenauer Lieb, Klaus ^a,b   Hooman, Kamel ^c   Chua, Hui Tong ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Western Australian Geothermal Centre of Excellence   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Freshwater yield; Geothermal energy; Low grade thermal energy; Multi effect desalination

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS; DESALINATION TECHNOLOGIES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FOSSIL FUEL SOURCES; FRESHWATER YIELD; LOW GRADE; LOW GRADE HEAT; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; MULTI-EFFECT DESALINATION; MULTIEFFECT DISTILLATION; PROCESS PLANTS; SIMULATION MODEL; SOURCE OF ENERGY;

CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESALINATION; DISTILLATION; ENERGY CONVERSION; FOSSIL FUELS; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WASTE HEAT; WATER FILTRATION;

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY;

EID: 80053182791     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2011.07.041     Document Type: Article

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