RETRACTED: An integrated optimization model and application of MEE-TVC desalination system

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief.The authors have plagiarized part of a paper that had already appeared in Desalination, A.O. Bin Amer, Development and Optimization of ME-TVC Desalination System, Vol 249/3 (2009), 1315–1331 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2009.06.026). One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that their work is original and has not appeared in a publication elsewhere. Re-use of any data should be appropriately cited. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process.