In this paper, the design of a novel multi-effect distillation system is described for the concentration of the brine effluent produced from desalination plants. The evaporation process was simulated through the use of a software tool that was developed for the brine treatment process. The results and the simulator tool are also discussed in the paper. The evaporator unit comprises the first treatment stage of a pilot system that was developed in the framework of the SOL-BRINE project. The system is based on the zero liquid discharge principle and is operated through the use of renewable sources and, in particular, solar energy. The system has been installed in Tinos Island, Greece and is operating regularly since January 2013.

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DESSA is a new decision support system that addresses an open multidisciplinary group of medical care providers (users) working in the area of epilepsy. DESSA is the result of a close collaboration between engineers, medical doctors, and market analysts. Its architecture provides the user with an integrated electronic working domain handling diverse types of information and medical records. DESSA enables the user to make a decision based on the identification of critical interaction factors amongst predefined data categories through a correlations model on the integrated clinical picture of the patient in real time. The term integrated clinical picture refers to the ability of the system to record, describe, and classify in time the epileptic events on the basis of their type, frequency of occurrence, duration of symptoms, and correlate with respective pharmacological treatment and period of its application as well as respective specialized EEG and vEEG pictures.