Environmental and economic assessment of beach well intake versus open intake for seawater reverse osmosis desalination

Desalination

Volumn 357, Issue , 2015, Pages 259-266

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

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Infrastructure Advisory   (Australia)

Author keywords

Beach well intake; Desalination; Economic analysis; Life cycle assessment; Open intake; Reverse osmosis

Indexed keywords

BEACHES; DESALINATION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FEEDWATER ANALYSIS; LIFE CYCLE; MICROFILTRATION; SEAWATER;

COMPARATIVE LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; CONTRIBUTION ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL BURDENS; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); OPEN INTAKE; SEAWATER REVERSE OSMOSIS;

REVERSE OSMOSIS;

BEACH; DESALINATION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FILTRATION; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; OSMOSIS; SEAWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 84949115190     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2014.12.003     Document Type: Article

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