Analysis of Thermal Properties on Backward Feed Multieffect Distillation Dealing with High-Salinity Wastewater

Table 2

Comparison of steam consumption, GOR, and total heat transfer areas for different effect numbers of MED.

Effect numbers	Steam consumption, kg·s^−1	GOR	Total heat transfer areas, m^2
2	2.94	1.87	188.69
3	2.09	2.64	296.38
4	1.61	3.42	406.56
5	1.34	4.10	525.60
6	1.17	4.70	650.14
7	1.05	5.24	783.45