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.