Water desalination supply chain modeling and optimization: case of Saudi Arabia
| Autor: | Stephen C. Graves, Malak T. Al-Nory |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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| Zdroj: | IDA Journal of Desalination and Water Reuse. 5:64-74 |
| ISSN: | 2051-6452 1947-7953 |
| DOI: | 10.1179/2051645213y.0000000008 |
| Popis: | A large number of new desalination plants are being contracted every year constituting huge strategic investments. Strategic decisions related to plant locations and capacity, the Selection of the desalination technology, and many other technical decisions related to the plant design and operation are very critical to maximize the economical and the social return on these investments. Viewing the desalination industry network as a supply chain provides a holistic view allowing decision makers to perform optimization of water desalination operations end to end. The proposed methodology provides a set of modular simulation components to allow the creation of complex models to optimize the entire water desalination supply chain quickly and easily. The optimization entails mathematical programming (MP) models that can be solved by external MP solvers. Saudi Arabia is the worldwide leader in the desalinated water capacity. A national water strategy is implemented by a number of governmental and privatized auth... |
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