Comparative economic and environmental assessments of centralised and decentralised seawater desalination options

Desalination

Volumn 376, Issue , 2015, Pages 25-34

  Shahabi, Maedeh P ^a   McHugh, Adam ^a,b   Anda, Martin ^a   Ho, Goen ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Infrastructure Advisory   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cluster scale; Decentralisation; Desalination planning; Hybrid LCA; Seawater reverses osmosis

Indexed keywords

DESALINATION; ECONOMICS; LIFE CYCLE; PLANT EXPANSION; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SEAWATER;

CLUSTER SCALE; COMPARATIVE LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; CONTRIBUTION ANALYSIS; DECENTRALISATION; ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS; HYBRID LCA; PERTH , WESTERN AUSTRALIA; SPATIAL TEMPORAL MODEL;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECENTRALIZATION; DESALINATION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; PURIFICATION; SEAWATER;

EID: 84940558459     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2015.08.012     Document Type: Article

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