Abstract
Desalination is a process of getting potable water by treatment of highly saline brackish or sea water. The techniques are being adopted to treat sea water (67%), brackish water (19%), river water (8%) and waste water (6%) which can further help to cope up with the condition of water crisis. Global desalination techniques (i.e. reverse osmosis (RO), multistage flash (MSF), multi-effect distillation (MED)) are currently utilizing around 75.2 TWh of energy per year. These techniques need a continuous supply of power for their proper functioning. In remote areas renewable energy resources are used as power supply for smooth working of plants. Among these energy resources nuclear energy is found to be highly efficient energy that can be used to treat sea water. The energy produced from nuclear reactors can be coupled with thermal desalination units and can further used to treat water. The pressurized water reactor (PWR) is highly cost efficient and reliable technology that is being coupled with desalination unit for the treatment of highly saline water. Results from DEEP analysis showed that reverse osmosis system (RO) coupled with nuclear reactor are proved to be highly cost efficient and can provide high quality freshwater. The average cost for such type of unit is found to be 0.787 $/m3. The study concluded that coupling desalination units with nuclear reactors can provide clean water at comparatively lower cost.
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Alhuzaymi, T., ALQahtani, M. (2022). An Economic Evaluation of Integrated Desalination Systems Using Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR). In: Jeon, HY. (eds) Sustainable Development of Water and Environment. Environmental Science and Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07500-1_15
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