MSF Engineering
Process Description
Once-through MSF Systems
Recirculation Multistage Flash (MSF) System
Performance Ratio
Heat Transfer Area of the Stages Condenser
Flow Sheet Development
Maintenance Design Features
Component Design and Material
Rational Basis for Energy Comparison
Cost Estimation
MSF Steam Supply to an MSF Desalting Plant
from Cogeneration Turbine
Reference Dual-purpose Power/Desalination Plant
Introduction and Definitions
Basic Principles
Developments since 1950
Fundamentals of Multiple Effect
Evaporation
Single effect submerged tube system
Multi effect boiling of submerged tube desalination
system
Modern multi-effect boiling desalination with
regenerative heating system
Mechanical Driven Compressor
Thermally driven compressor
Vertical Tube Evaporators
Feed Heating and Feed Control
Upflow Vs downflow
Fluted tubes for vertical evaporators
Scale control and use of surfactants
Steam Path design of Vertical Tube bundle
Plant layout and arrangement
Process control and Instrumentation
Operating Experience with vertical tube evaporators
Case studies
Horizontal Tube Multiple Effect - Stacked Design
Hydraulic Design
Heat Transfer
Case Studies
Mechanical Vapor Compression Distillation
Process description
Process analysis
Effects of salinity and temperature on energy
consumption
System heat balance
Heat transfer surface requirement
Effects of evaporator temperature on heat transfer area
Effects of evaporator type on energy
Multieffect vapor compression distillation
Comparison of single effect and multieffect vcd systems
Forced circulation vapor compression
Compressors
Freezing Desalination Process
Desalination Freezing Process
Basic Component In Freezing Process
Indirect Freezing Process
Direct Freezing Process
Comments on Freezing Process
Future Prospects
Small Desalination Plants
Single Effect and Multi-effect Distillation (MED)
Vapor Compression (VC)
Multistage Flash (MSF)
Electrodialysis (ED)
Reverse Osmosis (RO)
Solar Distillation & Solar Energy Driven Plants
Freezing
Ion Exchange
Solvent Process
Membrane Distillation
Design of Multiple effect
Forced-circulation Evaporators & Crystallization System
Features & application of forced-circulation evaporators
ME forced-circulation evaporators
Thermodynamic design
Hydraulic design
Brine distribution
Concentration Process for vinasses from distilleries &
yeast Production
Rotary Evaporators
Historical background of Rotary Evaporators
Analysis of Rotary Evaporators
Specific energy for Rotors
Performance of Rotating Evaporators
Steady-State Model
Literature Review
Stage Model
Interstage Model
Brine Heater Model
Splitter Equations
Auxiliary Equations
Model Solution
Steady-State Simulation
Process Constraints
Performance Simulation
Results & Discussion
Dynamic Model
Literature Review
Brine Heater Model
Stage Model
Interstage Flow
Control Loops
Pipeline Networks
Dynamic Simulation
Cost Aspects - MSF
Purpose
Reference Design
Site-specific Factors
Cost Development Factors
Cost Calculation Methods
Process Optimization - Cost
Criteria
Process Design and Cost Criteria
Energy Supply Alternatives
Process Optimization
Process optimization
Setpoint variables
Technical criteria for Optimization
Simulator
Training Simulator
Simulator for an MSF Plant
Science and Technology of
Chemical Dosing for Desalination: History, Development
and Future Trends
Scope
History
Overview of Dosing Systems
Acid Dosing Systems
Threshold Scale Control Additives
Sulphite Dosing Systems
Antifoams
Chlorine
Ferrous Sulphate
Safety
Future trends
On-line Optimization of MSF
Desalination Plants
Steady-State MSF model
Steady-State detection
Data reconciliation and gross error detection
Optimization of Operating Conditions
Implementation of real-time Optimization
Suggestion For Future MSF-Plant
Design
Keydata of recommended future MSF Plants
Plant design aspects.
Operation aspects
Auxiliaries
Materials
Startup, Instrumentation
Control Scheme of Multistage
Flash Plants
Principles of MSF Desalination
Defining the System for Control
An Overview of Control Strategies for MSF Plants
The Need for Multivariable
Control in MSF Desalination Plants
Controllability Analysis
Robust Control
Dynamic Modeling and
Simulation: Model Validation and Simulation Studies
Model Description
Dynamic Plant experiment
Model Validation
Modeling, Dynamic and Control
of Horizontal Tube Falling Film Multieffect Desalination
Plants
Dynamic modeling of ME distillers
Dynamics and Controllability Analysis
Decentralized Control
Model Predictive Control
Dynamic Modeling and
Simulation: Brine flow hydraulics
Experimental Data
Mathematical Description
Illustrative Examples
Dynamic Modeling and
Simulation: Non-equilibrium Effects and Heat transfer
Non-equilibrium effects
Heat transfer
Dynamic Modelling and
Simulation: Modeling Concepts and Model overview
Modelling Concepts
MSF Plant Model Overview
