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Optimum‐Energy Technique for Determining Costs of Saline‐Water Conversion
Author(s) -
Tribus Myron,
Evans Robert M.
Publication year - 1962
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1962.tb00986.x
Subject(s) - yield (engineering) , energy (signal processing) , environmental science , saline water , energy transformation , energy cost , volumetric flow rate , process engineering , flow (mathematics) , mathematics , thermodynamics , engineering , mechanics , statistics , salinity , geology , physics , architectural engineering , oceanography
This article discusses the optimum‐energy technique used for the determination of costs of saline water conversion. The optimum energy requirements determine the optimum values of all thermodynamic design variables such as temperature differences, pressure drops, and flow rates. The resulting equipment combinations yield the achievable minimum possible cost of freshwater from the sea at the prevailing level of economics and technology. This technique of determining plant designs by finding the optimum energy requirement is called the optimum‐energy technique.