Countries which do not have adequate supply of freshwater sources like Kuwait resort to using desalination plants to meet their demand. Kuwait had used Multi-flash desalination (MSF) plants sine the 50’s of the last century to satisfy its ever increasing demand. Many new and more efficient and cost effective desalination technologies are currently available. Kuwait is in the process of building...

Seawater desalination plants have been utilized to supply fresh water to the State of Kuwait since the early 50’s. In spite of the fact that there are several types of desalination technology that can be used more efficiently and economically, one type of desalination technology, namely multi-stage flash (MSF), has been used extensively in Kuwait. This work is an attempt to identify the most su...

in this research, feasibility study of integrating thermal desalination unit with gas turbine (gt) has been investigated using retrofit and grass root design techniques  for lavan island oil refinery which is located in persian gulf. according to computed parameters on developed code for the power generation unit no.1 using ees (engineering equation solver) software, thermal efficiency of the g...

► The new HTGR + MED coupling scheme was proposed. ► KAIST coupling scheme uses PCHE without any intermediate loop. ► KAIST coupling scheme has independent structure between MED and heat sink. ► Water production capacity increases by 258% compared to previous researcher's results. ► Water cost is reduced by 9.0% compared to previous researcher's results. a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o Th...

This paper investigates the simulation of a hybrid desalination system composed of multi-effect evaporation with thermal vapour compression desalination (METVC) and reverse osmosis (RO) plant. The hybrid desalination system is also integrated with a gas turbine power plant through a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG). First, a comprehensive Thermodynamic model for HRSG, METVC, and RO are deve...

At low pressure and temperature, water is easily vaporized under partial vacuum pressure. Desalination of seawater as source of potable water is globally considered as an applied reliable technology. At low temperature and pressure, the heat transfer process yield is higher than any normal process. Therefore, the rate of vaporization of seawater is much higher than any usual processes. The part...

There is an increasing need for the desalination of high concentration brine (>TDS 35,000 ppm) efficiently and economically, either for the treatment of produced water from shale gas/oil development, or minimizing the environmental impact of brine from existing desalination plants. Yet, reverse osmosis (RO), which is the most widely used for desalination currently, is not practical for brine de...