Techno-economic assessment and environmental impacts of desalination technologies

Toufic Mezher; Hassan Fath; Zeina Abbas; Arslan Khaled

doi:10.1016/j.desal.2010.08.035

Techno-economic assessment and environmental impacts of desalination technologies

Toufic Mezher, Hassan Fath, Zeina Abbas, Arslan Khaled

Management Science & Engineering

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This paper presents a comprehensive review and assessment of desalination technologies such as thermal which includes multi-stage flash (MSF) and multiple effect distillation (MED), membrane reverse osmosis (RO), and hybrid (MSF/MED-RO). The assessment includes energy requirements, water production cost, technology growth trends, environmental impact and potential for the technology improvements. Comparison and technology matrix of commercial technologies are highlighted. The global desalination policies for the major desalination user countries, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), United States of America (USA), Spain, China and Kuwait are given. More detailed analysis of desalination, cogeneration, and water situation in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with some related recommendations for future policy and plans are also presented.

Original language	British English
Pages (from-to)	263-273
Number of pages	11
Journal	Desalination
Volume	266
Issue number	1-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2010.08.035
State	Published - 31 Jan 2011

Keywords

Cost
Desalination technologies
Energy requirement
Environmental impact
UAE

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