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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS
Transactions ID Number: 89-517
Full Name: Mohammed Hajeeh
Position: Doctor (Researcher)
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: TED-KISR; P.O. Box 24885; Safat-13109; Al-Jahad Street; Shuwaikh; Kuwait
Country: KUWAIT
Tel: 965 24989500
Tel prefix: 965 24989499
Fax: 965 24989499
E-mail address: mhajeeh@kisr.edu.kw
Other E-mails: skuriaks@kisr.edu.kw
Title of the Paper: Water desalination plants performance using fuzzy multi-crieria decision making
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Mohammed A. Hajeeh
Email addresses of all the authors: mhajeeh@kisr.edu.kw
Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: Countries which do not have adequate supply of freshwater sources like Kuwait resort to using desalination plants to meet their demand. Kuwait had used Multi-flash desalination (MSF) plants sine the 50's of the last century to satisfy its ever increasing demand. Many new and more efficient and cost effective desalination technologies are currently available. Kuwait is in the process of building new desalination plants, and has to seize this opportunity to consider using other desalination technologies instead of MSF plants. In this work, an attempt to make to bring to the attention to the decision maker the performance and suitability of the different technologies using a fuzzy multi-criteria decision making technique. The preference is based on six criteria (factors) for comparing three commercially available desalination technologies, i.e., Multi-stage flash (MSF), Multi-effect desalination (MED), and Reverse osmosis (RO). The study found that the amount of en!
ergy used in these plants should be most important selection criteria followed by the amount of pre-treatment required. The most preferred technology is RO according to this study.
Keywords: Freshwater, Decision maker, Preference, , Reverse osmosis, Multi-stage flash, Multi-effect desalination
EXTENSION of the file: .doc
Special (Invited) Session: Fuzzy Approach for Water Desalination Plants Selection
Organizer of the Session: 640-276
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