Dynamic modeling and performance of the first cell of a multi-effect distillation plant

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 410-420

  De La Calle, Alberto ^a   Bonilla, Javier ^a   Roca, Lidia ^a   Palenzuela, Patricia ^a  

^a PLATAFORMA SOLAR DE ALMERÍA CIEMAT   (Spain)

Author keywords

Falling film evaporation and condensation; Multi effect distillation; Object oriented modeling; Solar desalination

Indexed keywords

DESALINATION; DISTILLATION;

FALLING-FILM EVAPORATION; FIRST PRINCIPLES MODELS; MODELICA LANGUAGE; MULTIEFFECT DISTILLATION; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; OBJECT ORIENTED MODEL; SOLAR DESALINATION; THERMAL TRANSIENT BEHAVIOR;

PLANT EXTRACTS;

EID: 84902188774     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2014.05.035     Document Type: Article

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