Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization of large-Scale Commercial Desalination Plants
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چکیده
ii Acknowledgment iv Dedication vii List of Figures xvii List of Tables xxiv Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 Water Crisis in Arab Countries 1 1.2 Research Motivation 2 1.3 Research Aims and Significance 3 A. The Significance of Neural Networks for Modeling of Large-Scale 4 Commercial Water Desalination Plants. B. The Significance of Steady-State and Dynamic Simulations of a Large-Scale Commercial Multistage Flash (MSF) Desalination Plant. 5 C. The Significance of Performance Optimization of a Large-Scale Commercial Multistage Flash (MSF) Desalination Plant. 6 1.4 Uniqueness of the Research 7 1.5 Research Setting 7 1.6 Dissertation Organization 8 Chapter 2: Desalination Processes 2.1 Need for Desalination 12 2.2 History of Desalination 13 2.3 Classification of Desalination Processes 16 A. Distillation: Thermal Processes 19
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