El-Salaam Canal Water, Sinai, Egypt. Part V. Techno-economic study for integrated treatment plant

Abstract

The water quality of El-Salaam canal, in Sinai, Egypt is chemically and biologically polluted because it is a mixture of Nile water and Drainage water. Complex treatment plant is proposed which consists of three types of plants: primary water filtration and chlorination (PWFC) treatment plant of 20,000 m 3 /d capacity, ultrafiltration (UF) water treatment plant of 2400 m 3 /d capacity and brackish water reverse osmosis (BWRO) treatment plant of 2400 m 3 /d capacity. The aim of this article is to present design considerations, system components, process description and material balance calculations of each plant. Based on the presented techno-economic study, the fixed capital cost of