Combined Desalination and Power Generation Using Coal Energy. Phase II. Investigation of Emerging Technology, by-Product Recovery, and Very Large Capacities

摘要

The report presents the results of a study of certain aspects of combination plants for desalting water and generating electricity using coal as the source of energy. Topics include: Emerging technology in the areas of power generation (improvements in the steam-electric cycle, non-conventional power sources), desalination (especially reverse osmosis and multi-stage flash distillation processes), and coal gasification, recovery of by-products, such as salts, sulfur, and coal ash, as a means of cost reduction; advantages of scaling-up to very large plants; sources of capital costs; economic bases of combination plants; water costs under various conditions.