The mass and heat balance is the first calculation and the one everything else depends on. It fixes the steam consumption, the cooling water load, the vapour flows between effects and the final concentration you can realistically reach.
Key features
- Effect-by-effect balance with boiling point rise and flash recovery accounted for.
- Steam economy stated against the number of effects and the vapour recompression scheme.
- Sensitivity checked against feed variation, so the plant works on a bad day as well as a good one.
