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Following the detailed study of the three modules of the Solar Multiple Con
densation Evaporation Cycle (SMCEC)-based desalination unit located in Sfax
, Tunisia, it was found necessary to couple the three modules, to simulate
the desalination unit operation in an environment close to that of the real
process and to develop a regulation scheme that would optimise the desalin
ation production. The developed models were then reduced using the orthogon
al collocation method. Based on the reduced models, several cases of numeri
cal simulation of the unit operation have been conducted to monitor the evo
lution of the unit operation as a function of its command parameters and ex
ternal perturbations. In this study and for the sake of optimising the desa
lination unit operation, a global model is developed based on which a regul
ation algorithm is designed. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights rese
rved.