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DESALINATION
卷 306, 期 -, 页码 17-23出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2012.08.022
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Eutectic Freeze Crystallisation (EFC); Evaporative Crystallisation (EC); Mine water; Water treatment; Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
Two processes are compared by means of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to determine which one causes less environmental impact for the treatment of saline mining wastewater: Eutectic Freeze Crystallisation (EFC) or Evaporative Crystallisation (EC). EC is a well established technology whereas EFC is a new promising technology that has the potential to compete with EC but so far has not been built at industrial scale. As the processes yield by-product water in different states, system expansion was used to effect a fair comparison. The study considers three different geographical areas: South Africa, France and Europe, in order to identify the effect the source of energy has on the comparison. The energy efficiency of the chilling technology is studied parametrically. The LCA results show that for the modelled 4 wt.% sodium sulphate solution, the EFC process is strongly preferred to EC regardless of the country energy mix, requiring 6-7 times less energy resources, but also that process energy integration and chiller energy efficiency can further reduce its environmental impacts significantly. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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