Recent developments in thermally-driven seawater desalination: Energy efficiency improvement by hybridization of the MED and AD cycles

KC Ng, K Thu, SJ Oh, L Ang, MW Shahzad, AB Ismail - Desalination, 2015 - Elsevier
The energy, water and environment nexus is a crucial factor when considering the future
development of desalination plants or industry in the water-stressed economies. New …

A review of heterogeneous nucleation of calcium carbonate and control strategies for scale formation in multi-stage flash (MSF) desalination plants

J Zhao, M Wang, HMS Lababidi, H Al-Adwani… - Desalination, 2018 - Elsevier
The formation of solid inorganic salts from solutions is of fundamental importance for
industrial, geological, and biological processes. Here, we review the literature on the …

[HTML][HTML] Modelling and optimisation of multi-stage flash distillation and reverse osmosis for desalination of saline process wastewater sources

AJ Toth - Membranes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Nowadays, there is increasing interest in advanced simulation methods for desalination. The
two most common desalination methods are multi-stage flash distillation (MSF) and reverse …

Developments in thermal desalination processes: Design, energy, and costing aspects

M Al-Sahali, H Ettouney - Desalination, 2007 - Elsevier
Desalination provides a sustainable source of fresh water for countries with limited water
resources. Progress in the desalination technology made highly competitive to water …

Multi-stage flash desalination: present and future outlook

HT El-Dessouky, HM Ettouney, Y Al-Roumi - Chemical Engineering …, 1999 - Elsevier
Multi-stage flash desalination (MSF) is currently the workhorse of the desalination industry
with a market share close to 60% of the total world production capacity. As the turning point …

Desalination processes evaluation at common platform: A universal performance ratio (UPR) method

MW Shahzad, M Burhan, HS Son, SJ Oh… - Applied Thermal …, 2018 - Elsevier
The inevitable escalation in economic development have serious implications on energy
and environment nexus. The International Energy Outlook 2016 (IEO2016) predicted that the …

An exergy approach to efficiency evaluation of desalination

KC Ng, MW Shahzad, HS Son, OA Hamed - Applied Physics Letters, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
This paper presents an evaluation process efficiency based on the consumption of primary
energy for all types of practical desalination methods available hitherto. The conventional …

Optimal design of hybrid RO/MSF desalination plants Part I: Modeling and algorithms

AM Helal, AM El-Nashar, E Al-Katheeri, S Al-Malek - Desalination, 2003 - Elsevier
Hybridization of seawater reverse osmosis (S WRO), desalting technology and the multi-
stage flash (MSF) has been considered to improve the performance of the latter and reduce …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic modelling and simulation of industrial scale multistage flash desalination process

H Hasan, S Alsadaie, MA Al-Obaidi, IM Mujtaba - Desalination, 2023 - Elsevier
Multistage Flash (MSF) desalination process is still a dominant process, especially in the
Gulf region, to produce high quality freshwater. Although there has been energy price surge …

Process control in water desalination industry: an overview

I Alatiqi, H Ettouney, H El-Dessouky - Desalination, 1999 - Elsevier
Process control is an essential part of the desalination industry that requires for operation at
the optimum operating conditions an increase in the lifetime of the plant and reduction of the …