Multi-stage flash desalination : modeling, simulation, and adaptive control /

Explore a Viable Resource for Desalination. The world's freshwater supplies are rapidly depleting and seawater is being positioned as a major feasible replacement in the search for a sustainable water source. Focused on large-scale multi-stage flash (MSF) seawater desalination plants, and based...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Woldai, Abraha (Author)
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, [2016]
Series:Engineering systems and sustainability series.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Operation and Control of Multi-Stage Flash Desalination Plants
  • Dynamic Model for an MSF Plant
  • Data Reconciliation and Model Validation with Experimental Data
  • Analysis of the Dynamic Model for Control
  • Optimal Reduction of the MSF Plant Model to the First or Second Order with Delay Forms
  • Optimal PID Controller Tuning in Large MSF Plants for Seawater Desalination
  • An Adaptive Scheme with an Optimally Tuned PID Controller
  • Conclusions and Discussion
  • Programs.