Boosted Multi-Effect Distillation for sensible low-grade heat sources: A comparison with feed pre-heating Multi-Effect Distillation

Desalination

Volumn 366, Issue , 2015, Pages 32-46

  Christ, Alexander ^b   Regenauer Lieb, Klaus ^c   Chua, Hui Tong ^a,b  

^a TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Desalination; Heat transfer coefficient; MED; Pumping power; Waste heat; Water production cost

Indexed keywords

DESALINATION; DISTILLATION; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; HEATING; WASTE HEAT;

ECONOMIC COMPARISONS; LOW GRADE HEAT SOURCES; MULTIEFFECT DISTILLATION; OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS; PUMPING POWER; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; THERMAL DESALINATION; WATER PRODUCTION COST;

DISTILLERIES;

EID: 84939990971     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2014.12.047     Document Type: Article

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