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In light of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, a multivariate linear model was built to estimate the percent of each countries’ population having reasonable access to clean drinking water. The statistical program ARC [1] was used to determine which adequately transformed variables were

In this paper a methodology for MSF process optimization taken into account process availability will be presented. The process optimal operative conditions, and the optimal equipment allocation in stand-by units when necessary will be performed, given a process model and cost data. In this paper a

For the expected installation and operation of additional seawater desalination plants, manpower is needed. Besides the financing and the manufacturing of these plants, the training of the future staff is a big challenge. It is assumed that in the MENA region each year more than 1000 people will hav

This analysis presented in this paper assesses the difference in the performance measures due to the inclusion of an energy recovery system into a small reverse osmosis (RO) in terms of plant availability. The failure behavior of an RO plant including an energy recovery Pelton wheel turbine is analy