Research Papers by Antonio Valero

This paper presents the economic analysis of the Ebro River transfer (a total amount of 1.050 hm3/y) presented for the Spanish Government in his project for the National Hydrologic Plan and its alternative: drinking water obtained from desalination plants. In this paper is proved that the cost of th

The thermoeconomic optimization of an actual steam power plant coupled with a MSF desalination unit is reported. A global optimization of the whole system is performed based on separated local optimizations of different plant units. The local optimization procedure described herein requires fewer co