The scarcity of fresh water resources and the need for additional water supplies is already
critical in many arid regions of the world and will be increasingly important in the future. The …

Increasing energy demand, high energy cost and global warming issues require energy-
intensive industries to make sincere efforts to improve energy efficiency. The energy …

The utilization of multi-effect distillation (MED) in thermal desalination processes is more
widespread owing to lower energy consumption. The focus of this paper is to optimize the …

Supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO 2) Brayton cycles are considered to be a potentially viable
option for reducing the cost of electricity generation from solar power tower plants, owing to …

Integrating a multi-effect distillation (MED) process with a concentrated solar power (CSP)
plant can enable a sustainable solution to meet our global society's increasing energy and …

The supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO 2) Brayton cycle is an upcoming power cycle
potentially providing higher energy efficiency and more compact turbomachinery compared …

The dynamic model of heptads' stage evaporative unit employed in concentrating black
liquor in paper industry show tremendous complexity. In this work, linearization of such a …

Energy saving in the food industry is of a great deal of importance. Thermal vapor
compressors (TVCs) do not have moving parts which offer advantages including simplicity …

This paper proposes a general superstructure and a Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming
(MINLP) model for the synthesis and simultaneous optimisation and Heat Integration (HI) of …

In the face of global freshwater shortage, energy-efficient desalination technologies are
receiving increasing attention. Multi-effect distillation with thermal vapor compression …