TY - JOUR
T1 - Calculating the environmental cost of seawater desalination in the Arabian marginal seas
AU - Purnama, Anton
AU - Al-Barwani, Hamdi H.
AU - Smith, Ronald
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Internal Grant at Sultan Qaboos University under the research project code IG/SCI/DOMS/05/07.
PY - 2005/5/22
Y1 - 2005/5/22
N2 - Seawater desalination in the Arabian Gulf and the Red Sea is the reliable source of water supply to the population of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. If desalination plants were to operate along the coasts of these arid climate semi-enclosed Arabian marginal seas, then the additional loss of water and returned brine waste due to the plant's water production would increase the salinity. A mathematical model is presented to calculate the impact of desalination plants on the salinity within a semi-enclosed sea of simple geometry. Due to the exponential sensitivity to the plant's location and its water production capacity, the effect of seawater desalination at the northern Arabian Gulf or Red Sea is found to be more severe.
AB - Seawater desalination in the Arabian Gulf and the Red Sea is the reliable source of water supply to the population of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. If desalination plants were to operate along the coasts of these arid climate semi-enclosed Arabian marginal seas, then the additional loss of water and returned brine waste due to the plant's water production would increase the salinity. A mathematical model is presented to calculate the impact of desalination plants on the salinity within a semi-enclosed sea of simple geometry. Due to the exponential sensitivity to the plant's location and its water production capacity, the effect of seawater desalination at the northern Arabian Gulf or Red Sea is found to be more severe.
KW - Arabian Gulf
KW - Mathematical model
KW - Red Sea
KW - Seawater desalination
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U2 - 10.1016/j.desal.2005.03.072
DO - 10.1016/j.desal.2005.03.072
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:29144470028
SN - 0011-9164
VL - 185
SP - 79
EP - 86
JO - Desalination
JF - Desalination
IS - 1-3
ER -