This document discusses evaporation processes and equipment. It begins by defining evaporation as adding heat to a solution to vaporize the solvent, usually water, and describes factors that affect evaporation processing like concentration, solubility, temperature, and foaming. It then covers types of evaporation equipment like single-effect and multiple-effect evaporators. For single-effect evaporators, it provides methods to calculate vapor and liquid flowrates, heat transfer area, and heat transfer coefficient. For multiple-effect evaporators, it notes they allow the latent heat of vapor from earlier effects to be recovered and reused.