ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF WATER DESALINATION PLANTS USING DEAP PROGRAM.

Reverse Osmosis (RO) is proved to be the most reliable in producing fresh water compared to other desalination technologies. It is the fastest-growing desalination technology with a greater number of installations around the world. The economic and technical performance of a small-capacity RO desalination plant is (4-5 m3/day) in the North West coast of Egypt (as aExample). This paper presents the thermal and membrane desalination economic analysis and outlines procedure to calculate the product unit cost for various desalination processes. There are many kinds ofdesalination plants works all over the world and with the continued progress of the technology of desalination makes inter-State competition much more to discover desalination methods less expensive than previously or work to reduce the unit costs of desalinated water in order to alleviate the acute shortage of water all over the world. Even desalination costs to be competitive with the operation and maintenance of water transmission systems for long-distance costs. This paper aims to be clarified various economic transactions in the analytical program used to calculate the product unit cost of water desalination by different methods used and comparison between them. DEEP program is used to analyze osmosis desalination membranes and thermal data, The Desalination Economic Evaluation Program (DEEP) is a tool made freely available by the International Atomic Energy Agency, which can be used to evaluate performance and cost of various power and water co-generation configurations.