Research Article
Thermoeconomic Analysis and Multiobjective Optimization of a Solar Desalination Plant
Table 1
Lower and upper bounds of decision variables.
| Decision variable | Lower bound | Upper bound |
| () | 5 | 50 | () | 5 | 50 | (mm) | 20 | 80 | (m) | 1 | 5 | (m) | 1 | 5 | (m) | 1 | 5 | No. effect (—) | 3 | 10 | (m) | 1 | 8 | | 10 | 50 | | 10 | 50 | (mm) | 20 | 80 | (bar) | 8 | 15 | () | 200 | 400 | (mm) | 20 | 80 | Thickness (mm) | 10 | 25 | (m) | 3.5 | 8 | | 1 | 3.5 |
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