Multi-Effect Evaporator

Overview

	Size / Design Variable	Mean Heat Transfer Area
	Costing Variable (Built-in Model)	Mean Heat Transfer Area
	Costing Variable (User-Defined Model)	Mean Heat Transfer Area (in m2)
	Emissions Port	No
	Hosts	Multi-Effect Evaporation Procedure

A Multi-Effect Evaporator is used to represent an equipment resource that hosts a multi-effect evaporation procedure with a main objective to concentrate a solution. The procedure can be executed in a continuous or semi-continuous mode. Each unit represents a sequence of evaporators connected together in such a way that the concentrated solution in one is fed to another and the vapor produced by one can be used to boil the solution in another. Each evaporator in this sequence is called an effect. The default number of effects is one, corresponding to a single evaporator. Additional effects may be specified through the interface of the corresponding multi-effect evaporation operation.

For information on the equipment data interface, see Multi-Effect Evaporator: Equipment tab.