Techno-economic assessment and environmental impacts of desalination technologies

Desalination

Volumn 266, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 263-273

  Mezher, Toufic ^a   Fath, Hassan ^a   Abbas, Zeina ^a   Khaled, Arslan ^a  

^a KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Cost; Desalination technologies; Energy requirement; Environmental impact; UAE

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL TECHNOLOGY; DESALINATION TECHNOLOGIES; ENERGY REQUIREMENT; ENERGY REQUIREMENTS; KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA; MATRIX; MULTI STAGE FLASH; MULTIPLE EFFECT DISTILLATION; TECHNO-ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT; TECHNOLOGY GROWTH; TECHNOLOGY IMPROVEMENT; UAE; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; WATER PRODUCTION COST;

DESALINATION; DISTILLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; TECHNOLOGY; WATER FILTRATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DESALINATION; DISTILLATION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; OSMOSIS; SANITATION; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; WATER RESOURCE; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

CHINA; KUWAIT [MIDDLE EAST]; SAUDI ARABIA; SPAIN; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78649643862     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2010.08.035     Document Type: Article

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