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| + | Seawater desalination plants require an intake system to provide a reliable supply of seawater to the facility. Designs for the intake are very specific to the location; possibly more so than any other aspect of a desalination plant. The costs of designing, modelling, and monitoring an intake may be as much as 20% of the capital cost of the entire facility. As such, it is possible that the feasibility and performance of a desalination plant may be determinate by intake issues. | ||
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| + | Historically, environmental impacts associated with concentrate discharge at the outfall have been considered the most significant ecological hurdle when designing a new facility. However, marine life impingement and entrainment associated with intakes were noted by some research to be harder to quantify and may represent a more significant adverse environmental impact <ref name="pankratz" />. | ||
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| + | <ref name="pankratz">t. Pankratz, "An overview of seawater intake facilities for seawater desalination", The Future of Desalination in Texas, 2 (2004). | ||
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Seawater desalination plants require an intake system to provide a reliable supply of seawater to the facility. Designs for the intake are very specific to the location; possibly more so than any other aspect of a desalination plant. The costs of designing, modelling, and monitoring an intake may be as much as 20% of the capital cost of the entire facility. As such, it is possible that the feasibility and performance of a desalination plant may be determinate by intake issues.
Historically, environmental impacts associated with concentrate discharge at the outfall have been considered the most significant ecological hurdle when designing a new facility. However, marine life impingement and entrainment associated with intakes were noted by some research to be harder to quantify and may represent a more significant adverse environmental impact [1].
References
- ↑ t. Pankratz, "An overview of seawater intake facilities for seawater desalination", The Future of Desalination in Texas, 2 (2004).