SEAWATER DESALINATION PLANT FOR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Authors
HAMMOND RP EISSENBERG DM EMMERMANN DK JONES JE SEPHTON HH STANDIFORD FC SCOTT RF RIDER WJ DEAN DW
Citation
Rp. Hammond et al., SEAWATER DESALINATION PLANT FOR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, Desalination, 99(2-3), 1994, pp. 459-481
Citations number
1
Categorie Soggetti
Water Resources","Engineering, Chemical
Journal title
Desalination → ACNP
ISSN journal
00119164
Volume
99
Issue
2-3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
459 - 481
Database
ISI
SICI code
0011-9164(1994)99:2-3<459:SDPFSC>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
The paper describes Metropolitan's $30 million demonstration program t o develop a 75 million-gallon-per-day (mgd) seawater desalination plan t coupled to a combined cycle steam turbine coastal power generating p lant that produces water at $600 per acre foot. The plant is a multi-e ffect distillation process incorporating a thirty-effect, vertically s tacked evaporator in a concrete pressure vessel using vertical aluminu m double-fluted bundles.