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Membrane Water Treatment Volume 1, Number 1, January 2010 , pages 75-81 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/mwt.2010.1.1.075 |
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Membrane engineering progresses in desalination and water reuse |
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Francesca Macedonio and Enrico Drioli
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Abstract | ||
The aim of this work is to analyse and discuss the use of the Economic Evaluation and of some new \"metrics\" for an appropriate valuation of membrane operations in the logic of Process Intensification. In particular, the proposed approach has the goal to show how the utilized indicators can drive to the choice of the most convenient process. Although in this work the planned procedure is applied, as a case study, to the membrane-based systems for boron and arsenic removal from waters, the suggested approach can be generally applied to any other process of interest. | ||
Key Words | ||
sustainability; process intensification strategy; metrics; cost. | ||
Address | ||
Francesca Macedonio* and Enrico Drioli; Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials, University of Calabria,Via P. Bucci Cubo 44/A, 87030 Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy Institute on Membrane Technology, ITM-CNR, c/o University of Calabria, Via P. Bucci Cubo 17/C, Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy | ||