Research Papers by Corrado Sommariva

Several studies have demonstrated that the performances of combined cycle power plants can be optimised taking advantages of flue gas waste heat. However, despite the process advantages related to power cycle have been clearly identified no judicious use of flue gas heat to enhance performances in t

The role of material selection in optimising plant costs has been already subject of several studies [1–3]. These studies focused on the main plant items such as tube bundle, vessels, vessel linings, tubeplates etc. as they are the major components to the plant costs and therefore represent the main

The operational experience on the first generation of large MSF desalination plant has demonstrated that the original expected life of these units has been largely exceeded. Several contracts for the rehabilitation and upgrading of desalination units installed 20 years ago have been recently awarded