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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 CO2 released in MSF distillers can be used for the recarbonation of the distillate. The recarbonation method using CO2 from the vent gases of MSF distillers has gained importance, since the post-treatment of potable water can be affected without additional CO2 production by combustion processes.

This paper presents a performance optimization of solar multi-stage flash (MSF) desalination process using Pinch technology. Three different situations were studied by using pinch analysis in this paper, respectively. Firstly, the distilled water is not discharged in each middle stage. Secondly, the

According to the parameter characteristics of electricity–water cogeneration power plants, an enhanced multistage flash (E-MSF) seawater desalination system was proposed which considered the advantage of a multiple effect distillation (MED) seawater desalination system. The main improvement ideas of

Multi-stage flash desalination plants consist of many complex parts and equipment. In general, the process of producing water passes through many steps until the final product, which is distillate water, is obtained. At the present, troubleshooting in MSF plants relies on expert operators in the pla

The MSF process has covered in the last years more than 50% of world production of desalinated water from the sea. Although this process has been used for several decades, the large energy requirements force to search for new and feasible ways to improve the overall thermal efficiency. Few studies h

Modelling played an important role in simulation, optimisation, and control of multi-stage flash (MSF) desalination processes. Top brine temperature (TBT) is one of the many important parameters that affect optimal design and operation of MSF processes. Within the MSF process model, calculation of T

The successful development of a control system requires an appropriate definition of the control structure (i.e., selection of output, input and disturbance variables) and an efficient dynamical model on which the design, analysis and evaluation can be carried out. Thus, the confidence in the obtain

This work outlines the development of a fault diagnostic system to supervise a MSF desalination plant during dynamic states (e.g., start-up and changes of operative conditions) using artificial neural networks (ANNs). This diagnostic system processes the plant data to determine whether the process s

This work outlines the development of a fault diagnostic system to supervise a desalination plant MSF during dynamic states (e.g., start-up and changes of operative conditions) using a real-time expert system. This diagnostic system processes the plant data to determine whether the process state dur