Brine discharge from desalination plants: a modeling approach to an optimized outfall design

Alameddine, Ibrahim; El‐Fadel, Mutasem

doi:10.1016/j.desal.2006.02.103

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“…Most of the large cities located at coastal areas worldwide prefer to discharge their treated or untreated wastewaters into the ocean through marine outfall systems for convenient and economic reasons (Vijay et al 2010;Alameddine and El-Fadel 2007;Andreakis 1997). It is believed that oceans have a good capacity to assimilate waste discharge.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This will deteriorate the economical value and the ecological state of the coastal water with regard to other uses. The amount of waste which can be received by a water body without significant consequences and where and how the waste discharge should be made in order to minimize the resulting pollution level in sea water are the main questions to be answered before the ocean discharge (Alameddine and El-Fadel 2007;Malcangio and Petrillo 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Modeling wastewater discharge at the planning stage of a marine outfall system

Esen

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Uslu

et al. 2011

Environ Monit Assess

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The possibility of marine discharge of a negatively buoyant industrial waste was evaluated by a modeling study using Killworth 3-D, which is the first version of the Modular Ocean Model (MOM). The Model was run with the recorded wind direction and speed on the cruise dates and the circulation patterns for surface and subsurface were found to be similar with the current meter measurements. Model scenarios have been set-up in order to estimate the intensity and direction of the currents in the Nemrut Bay under the condition of wind blowing from a definite direction for a long time. MOM model has been run for four major wind directions, each having duration of 10 days and the behavior of the discharge plume in the worst case has been traced. Also, the behavior of the discharge plume in the real case has been estimated by using the wind data of the region. According to the model results, impact of trace elements that compose the discharge effluent is limited both in time and space. It is concluded that trace elements will leave the Bay in a short time due to the short residence times.

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Modeling wastewater discharge at the planning stage of a marine outfall system

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Uslu

et al. 2011

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“…CORMIX simulation outputs include contemporary three dimensional plume and diffuser visualizations, design recommendations, flow class descriptions and reporting oriented on mixing zone analysis and regulatory compliance (Doneker & Jirka, 2001;Doneker & Jirka, 2007). CORMIX model has also been used to simulate heated brine discharges (Del Bene et al, 1994;Alameddine & El-Fadel, 2007), and the results of CORMIX simulations of dense brine discharges from the submerged single port and multiport diffusers are reported here. …”

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“…CorSens is the CORMIX sensitivity analysis tool that generates a sensitivity study case to address model performance due to inherent uncertainty in the input data (Doneker & Jirka, 2007;Alameddine & El-Fadel, 2007). Therefore, instead of the tedious repetition of manual data entry, it automatically increments input data to analyze mixing zone conditions.…”

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A Computational Model Study of Brine Discharges from Seawater Desalination Plants at Barka, Oman

Al-Barwani¹,

Purnama²

2011

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“…Nevertheless, for each coastal seawater desalination plant, care has always been taken to determine the optimum site of water intakes and brine waste outfalls. Brine disposal has the potential to degrade the physical, chemical and biological characteristics of the receiving water body [5]. The degree of degradation is highly dependent on the total volume of the brine being released, its characteristics, the dilution rate prior to discharge, and the characteristics of the receiving waters.…”

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confidence: 99%