Dynamic MSF plant modeling and simulation: modeling concepts and model overview

Abstract:
After giving a brief summary of basic modeling principles this article addresses the problem of dynamic MSF plant modeling. A MSF plant is systematically decomposed into its major constituents. Each of those can be represented by a submodel. The submodels are sufficiently general to allow for the construction of models for different variants of MSF plants by appropriate aggregations and parameterization. That way a very flexible mathematical representation of the MSF plant system is achieved. For each of the submodels a certain mathematical description is presented and compared to MSF models suggested in literature. The intention of this article is rather to provide an overview of the MSF plant model and the submodels it is constructed of than to discuss the interesting questions related to modeling certain phenomena such as the interstage brine flow or non--equilibrium effects. These issues are addressed in more detail in subsequent articles

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