Dual purpose

All of the Saudi large MSF plants operate within the context of dual-purpose facilities for the simultaneous production of power and water. Such co-generation arrangement uses either backpressure or extraction condensing turbine. Co-generation cycles which were used till 1982 were employing extracti

Middle East and North African countries suffer from a large shortage of fresh water. Statistical analysis showed that the fresh water per capita in these countries is less than 13% of the average world per capita. In Libya, the available annual average fresh water is less than 150 l/d/capita, which