Comprehensive environmental assessment of seawater desalination plants: Multistage flash distillation and reverse osmosis membrane types in Saudi Arabia

Desalination

Volumn 351, Issue , 2014, Pages 145-150

  Tokui, Yusuke ^a   Moriguchi, Hitoshi ^a   Nishi, Yoshiki ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ecological footprint; Environmental impact; Inclusive impact index; Multistage flash distillation; Reverse osmosis

Indexed keywords

DESALINATION; DISTILLATION; DISTILLERIES; ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; PLANT EXTRACTS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SEAWATER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT; ELECTRIC POWER CONSUMPTION; ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS; IMPACT INDEX; MULTISTAGE FLASH DISTILLATION; SEAWATER DESALINATION PLANTS; TOTAL POWER CONSUMPTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DESALINATION; DISTILLATION; ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT; ENERGY USE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; INDEX METHOD; MEMBRANE; OSMOSIS; SEAWATER;

SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 84905828427     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2014.07.034     Document Type: Article

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