A group decision-making tool for the application of membrane technologies in different water reuse scenarios

Sadr, Seyed M. K.; Saroj, Devendra; Kouchaki, Samaneh; Ilemobade, A. A.; Ouki, Sabeha K.

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2015.02.047

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“…• The capital cost represents the initial investment of all the facilities for WT processes, [34] pointed out that the capital cost has significant influence on the implementation of the projects about the WT, because the initial investment cost can significantly influence the decision-makers. The capital costs:…”

Section: Economic Assessmentmentioning

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Sustainability Assessment of Wastewater Systems: An Environmental and Economic Approach

Padilla‐Rivera¹,

Morgan-Sagastume²,

Güereca³

2019

JEP

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To address current challenges regarding sustainable development of wastewater treatment and provide scientific support in decision procedures towards sustainable solutions, new approaches, frameworks and methodologies about different possible solutions and their potential sustainability implications are needed. One way to facilitate sustainability assessment of wastewater is Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology; however, it fails to map the full scope of wastewater impacts. This paper presents a framework to evaluate the performance of Wastewater Treatment Facilities (WWTF) taking into consideration various factors for insuring environmental sustainability. A total of nine indicators, seven environmental and two economic related to four wastewater treatment facilities, were assessed. Apart from evaluating the sustainability, this study also discussed the link of life cycle approach and social aspects of wastewater. The results show that for the environmental dimension using LCA provides information on different types of environmental activities and different impact categories. LCA can thus be used to quantify and compare the multiple types of impacts caused by one type of use or emission, as well as the various resource uses or emissions that contribute to one type of impacts. For the economic dimension, there is still a need for consistent and robust indicators and methods. The empirical results suggest that the environmental sustainability framework can be used in the first phase of the decision procedure that leads to a strategic choice for sustainable resource recovery from wastewater in developing countries. This motives researchers and decision-makers to consider the whole picture, and not just individual aspects, when considering different futures scenarios.

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Section: Economic Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability Assessment of Wastewater Systems: An Environmental and Economic Approach

Padilla‐Rivera¹,

Morgan-Sagastume²,

Güereca³

2019

JEP

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“…Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) is a well-established decision support method that strives to model expert thoughts and reasoning, and illustrates modelled results by systematic procedures (Cakir and Canbolat, 2008), whilst evaluating a number of solutions based on a set of criteria (Walker et al, 2015) with respect to economic, environmental, social and technical aspects (Sadr et al, 2015). Decisions, involving various issues, in particular environmental concerns and their associated policies and regulations, oblige the participation of multiple stakeholders, as these decisions may have both local and global impacts on the environment and/or the society (Kalbar et al, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This study builds on the work previously presented by Sadr et al, (2015), which adapted an MCMEDM (fuzzy-TOPSIS) for the selection of WWT options in different water reuse situations. In brief, Sadr et al, (2015) addressed a number of critical challenges in water reuse technology selection; namely: (1) alleviated the challenges of using linguistic variables, (2) incorporated opinions of different stakeholders in a panel of decisionmaking, (3) Showed how to deal with numerous water reuse aspects, criteria, and technologies, and finally, (4) systematised and classified the plethora of information about water reuse scenarios, criteria, and technologies.…”

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A multi expert decision support tool for the evaluation of advanced wastewater treatment trains: A novel approach to improve urban sustainability

Sadr

Saroj

Mierzwa

et al. 2018

Environmental Science & Policy

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“…Mousavi et al [18] developed a hierarchical GDM approach for new product selection in a fuzzy environment. Sadr et al [19] proposed a GDM tool for the application of membrane technologies in di erent water reuse scenarios. Fasanghari et al [20] developed a novel credibility-based GDM method for enterprise architecture scenario analysis using data envelopment analysis.…”

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A projection-based approach to intuitionistic fuzzy group decision making

Yue

Jia

2017

Scientia Iranica

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Abstract. Group Decision Making (GDM) is usually used for solving complex decision problems, which is an important part of modern decision science. Weight of the Decision Maker (DM) plays an important role in the GDM process, and the projection-based approach is a comprehensive consideration between decision objects. It is a valuable work to determine the weights of DMs by a projection measurement. This paper investigates a GDM method based on projection measurement in an intuitionistic fuzzy environment. First, this article introduces an ideal decision among all individual decisions, and the weights of DMs are determined by using a projection measurement. Then, the individual decisions are aggregated into a collective decision. Finally, the preference order of alternatives is identi ed by using the score and accuracy function of the intuitionistic fuzzy numbers. In addition, a comparison with another GDM method is provided. Feasibility and practicability of the developed method are illustrated by an experimental analysis. The experimental result shows that the projection-based method is a high-resolution decision method.

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A group decision-making tool for the application of membrane technologies in different water reuse scenarios

Cited by 36 publications

References 38 publications

Sustainability Assessment of Wastewater Systems: An Environmental and Economic Approach

Sustainability Assessment of Wastewater Systems: An Environmental and Economic Approach

A multi expert decision support tool for the evaluation of advanced wastewater treatment trains: A novel approach to improve urban sustainability

A projection-based approach to intuitionistic fuzzy group decision making

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