Geothermal application of heat exchanger design for desalination plants

Conference · Mon Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1980 · Trans. - Geotherm. Resour. Counc.; (United States)

OSTI ID:6297396

Fritzler, E A; Coury, G E

Heat exchangers can be a very costly part of modern geothermal plants for either electric or direct heat applications. To make maximum use of technology transfer from other industries, and to minimize as much as possible the need to duplicate previous work, this report has been prepared to provide an analytical review of the very extensive literature on heat exchangers developed by the Office of Saline Water (OSW). The 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. The exchanger design configurations that were studied include multistage flash plant condensers, vertical tube falling film and upward flow evaporators, and horizontal tube spray film evaporators.

• Research Organization: Coury and Associates, Inc., Lakewood, CO
• OSTI ID: 6297396
• Report Number(s): CONF-800920-
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Trans. - Geotherm. Resour. Counc.; (United States) Journal Volume: 4
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

15 GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
150800* -- Geothermal Power Plants
DESALINATION PLANTS
DESIGN
DOCUMENT TYPES
ENERGY SYSTEMS
ENERGY TRANSFER
EVAPORATORS
FLASHED STEAM SYSTEMS
GEOTHERMAL POWER PLANTS
HEAT EXCHANGERS
HEAT TRANSFER
INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
PERFORMANCE
POWER PLANTS
REVIEWS
STEAM SYSTEMS
THERMAL POWER PLANTS