Current Status, Challenges, and Future Management Strategies for Water Resources of Kuwait

Hadi, Khalid

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-46262-7_6

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“…For the plant installed in Cyprus, with operational data from 2007 and a capacity of 40,000 m 3 /day, the cost is 0.88 USD/m 3 . Similarly, the Palmchin plant in Israel, with data from 2008 and an average production of 83,270 m 3 /day, has a unit cost of 0.86 USD/m 3 .…”

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“…Water desalination is the technological process that makes it possible to remove salts from water to convert it into water without excess salts, through a physical and/or chemical process, using seawater or brackish water from the subsoil. From this process, it can be converted into a water resource perfectly suitable for human consumption [1], and can be used to irrigate agricultural crop fields [2,3] and in the food industry [4], etc.…”

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Cost Studies of Reverse Osmosis Desalination Plants in the Range of 23,000–33,000 m3/day

Feo-García,

Pulido-Alonso,

Florido-Betancor

et al. 2024

Water

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The analysis of energy consumption in reverse osmosis desalination plants is the most important and relevant factor to study, because this parameter indicates the level of efficiency and competitiveness of the plant. The direct consequence of the high specific energy consumption (SEC) of a desalination plant in the production of water is one of the main obstacles to the exponential expansion of this technology worldwide. The methodological procedure used to carry out the work is based on the analysis of energy consumption, maintenance costs, staff, membranes, and reagents of three desalination plants with a production of more than 23,000 m3/day located in the Canary Islands (Spain); all data are obtained from real analyses collected “in situ” from 2015 to 2018. One of the main objectives of the current research on desalination plants is to reduce the SEC of seawater desalination plants (SWRO), incorporating energy recovery systems (ERS) and high efficiency pumps (HEP), and to implement different operational configurations with the aim of minimizing the energy requirements necessary to obtain a good product quality at minimum production cost.

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confidence: 99%