HEAT EXCHANGER DESIGN FOR DESALINATION PLANTS Review of the office of Saline Water Research and Development Program

摘要

The Office of Saline Water (OSW) accomplished a very -large amount of significant work related to the design and performance of large heat exchanger bundles and enhanced heat transfer surfaces. This work was undertaken to provide basic technical and economic data for the design of distillation plants for the desalination of seawater. The data should be of value to other industrial applications as well, including geothermal energy processes and ocean thermal energy recovery systems.