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Publication year - 1963
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.1551-8833.1963.tb01005.x
Subject(s) - brine , saline water , saline , distillation , environmental science , process engineering , environmental engineering , engineering , chemistry , thermodynamics , geology , biology , chromatography , physics , oceanography , salinity , endocrinology
This article comments on the JOURNAL article, “Optimum‐Energy Technique for Determining Costs of Saline‐Water Conversion,” by Myron Tribus and Robert B. Evans (December 1962 JOURNAL). Eliassen states that the article “is a significant step in understanding the place of saline‐water conversion in water supply. This technique enables the engineer to isolate the variables that will have the greatest influence on costs and to select design values that will give the lowest overall costs.” Eliassen discusses the development of universal parameters for each major cost factor in saline‐water conversion, the cost of brine disposal in inland areas, the final cost data for multistage‐flash distillation for multiple‐effect, long‐tube evaporation and vapor compression plants and freezing plants, and that saline‐water conversion must be included in any engineering economic analysis of future water supply issues.