Engineering Economy Project

Faculty: Dr. Yousef Alshammari

Engineering Economy Project

Spring 2020

Water desalination is a major process to supply clean drinking water in many countries around the World. The International Atomic Energy Agency has developed economic tools to assess the economic aspects of water desalination using a range of technologies. Using the IAEA Desalination Economic Evaluation Programme (DEEP)

https://www.iaea.org/topics/non-electric-applications/nuclear-desalination

You are requested to work with your team to estimate the water desalination cost in terms of water production and energy consumption as requested below

1. Select the Power Plant type for your Desalination Plant and justify your selection. 2. Investigate the effects fuel option on the water and energy production costs 3. Investigate the effects of technology option 4. Select a power plant technology and justify your selection 5. Investigate the effects of Power Plant Efficiency on the water and energy costs 6. Investigate the effect of the Desalination Capacity on the water and energy costs 7. Investigate the effects of Carbon Prices on the water and energy costs 8. Investigate the relationship between discount rate and water production for your

selected process

9. Investigate the effects of interest rates on your production costs on the water and energy costs

10. Investigate the relationship between fuel escalation rate and water and energy production costs

11. Comment on the results and make recommendations

Faculty: Dr. Yousef Alshammari

Project Guidelines

In team of five engineers, you are required to the follow the following guidelines to complete

this project.

1. Form your team composing five engineers

2. Select a team leader

3. Distribute the task among your team members (each member must have one analytical

task)

4. Produce a report (5-10 pages) summarising project results and recommendations

5. Project report must be submitted as a hardcopy to the faculty.

Your project report cover page must show the names of the team members, team leader, and

individual contribution of each member. Your project will be assessed based on the quality of

individual and group contributions.

Your project is due date: 17/04/2020

CAUTION: PLAGIARISM MEANS ZERO

Good luck