
Low Grade Heat Driven Multi-Effect Distillation and Desalination
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Key Features
- Focuses on advanced, yet practical, distillation technologies using low-grade sensible heat
- Explains the new design paradigm that must accompany the development of technologies
- Contains key experimental data that serves to prove the core concepts that underpin the new technologies
- Covers extensive thermo-economic analyses of the technologies, the price point for adoption, capital cost comparison with existing technologies, operating costs, and net present values
Readership
Researchers, engineering scientists, graduate students, and industrial practitioners working in desalination, petrochemical and mineral refining sectors
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to Desalination
- 1.1. Introduction
- 1.2. A Brief History of Desalination
- 1.3. Desalination Technologies
- 1.4. Energy Consumption and Environmental Impacts of Desalination Processes
Chapter 2. Low Grade Sensible Heat-Driven Distillation
- 2.1. Introduction to Low Grade Sensible Heat Sources
- 2.2. Conventional Multi-Effect Distillation Process
- 2.3. Preheated Multi-Effect Distillation Process
- 2.4. Boosted Multi-Effect Distillation Process
- 2.5. Flash-Boosted Multi-Effect Distillation Process
Chapter 3. Boosted Multi-Effect Distillation Pilot Plant
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Pilot Plant and Instrumentation
- 3.3. Process Simulation and Validation
- 3.4. Test Results
- 3.5. Conclusion
Chapter 4. Mathematical Simulation
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Mathematical Simulation Method
Chapter 5. Pumping Power Analysis
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Pressure Drops in Desalination Plants
Chapter 6. Waste Heat Performance Ratio
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Performance of Conventional Steam-Driven Multi-Effect Distillation Process
- 6.3. Performance of Sensible Heat-Driven Multi-Effect Distillation Process
- 6.4. The Waste Heat Performance Ratio
Chapter 7. Thermo-Economic Analysis
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Capital Cost Analysis
- 7.3. Operating Cost Analysis
- 7.4. Cash Flow and Capital Budgeting Metrics
Chapter 8. Application of Novel Low Grade Heat-Driven Distillation to Seawater Desalination
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Simulation Results
- 8.3. Thermoeconomic Analysis
- 8.4. Conclusion
Chapter 9. Application of Novel Low Grade Heat-Driven Distillation in Alumina Refineries
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Evaporation Process
- 9.3. A Novel Flash-Boosted Multi-Effect Evaporation for Alumina Refineries
- 9.4. A Novel Flash-Boosted Thermal Vapor Compression Multi-Effect Evaporation for Alumina Refineries
Appendix A. Seawater Enthalpy
Appendix B. Boiling Point Elevation and Nonequilibrium Allowance
Appendix C. Pressure Drop Across Plate Heat Exchangers
Appendix D. Overall Heat Transfer Coefficient in Condenser and Falling Film Evaporators
Appendix E. Plate Heat Exchanger Cost Estimation
Appendix F. Plate Heat Exchanger Overall Heat Transfer Coefficient
Appendix G. Excel Spreadsheet
Product details
- No. of pages: 208
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2017
- Published: March 1, 2017
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128051245
- eBook ISBN: 9780128052709
About the Authors
Hui Chua
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Bijan Rahimi
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