Thermo-economic analysis of two novel low grade sensible heat driven desalination processes

Desalination

Volumn 365, Issue , 2015, Pages 316-328

  Rahimi, Bijan ^b   May, Jake ^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

Capital cost; Economic analysis; Evaporation; Multi effect distillation; Multi stage flash; Waste heat

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DESALINATION; DISTILLATION; EVAPORATION; WASTE HEAT;

CAPITAL COSTS; ECONOMIC VIABILITY; ELECTRICAL POWER CONSUMPTION; MULTI STAGE FLASH; MULTIEFFECT DISTILLATION; PROCESS COMPONENT; PRODUCTION RATES; SIMPLE METHOD;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS;

DISTILLATION; EVAPORATION; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; WASTE TREATMENT; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84947733710     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2015.03.008     Document Type: Article

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