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Multiple-effect evaporation is the cheapest and simplest unit operation aimed to either recover the solvent from a solution or concentrate the solution itself. Several system configurations exist and the optimal one from a Net Income point of view can be selected for each specific case. By mean of a desalination case study cocurrent and countercurrent schemes are compared and advantages and disadvantages of both of them are highlighted and commented from an operability and an economic perspective.
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Di Pretoro, A., Manenti, F. (2020). Multiple-Effect Evaporation. In: Non-conventional Unit Operations. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34572-3_4
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