Use of166mHo for calibration of gamma-ray spectrometers with semiconductor detectors

Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 67, No. 3, pp. 215–216, September, 1989.     

Quality of the surface of strip annealed in bell-type furnaces

Institute of Ferrous Metallurgy. Novolipetsk Metallurgical Combine. Translated from Metallurg, No. 11, pp. 32–33, November, 1989.     

Improving a technology for treating pig iron outside the furnace with magnesium

Institute of Ferrous Metallurgy. Translated from Metallurg, No. 4, p. 24, April, 1989.     

The multi-effect boiling desalting system and its comparison with the multi-stage flash system

The basic characteristics of the multi-effect boiling (MEB) desalination system are presented. Recent developments are considered, and a thermodynamic analysis and evaluation of the heat transfer areas required for the MEB system are given. In comparing the heat transfer areas, water pretreatment and salt concentration, pumping power requirement and stability of the MEB and multi-stage flash (MSF) systems, MEB seems to have definite advantages over MSF. However, in the absence of well-proven large capacity MEB units, and in view of the good experience with and reliability of MSF systems, large producers of desalted water favor continued installation of MSF systems.