Modeling seawater desalination powered by waste incineration using a dynamic systems approach

This paper presents a supply and demand model for seawater desalination powered by incineration of municipal solid waste to complement the freshwater supply in a drought-affected area. The model follows a dynamic systems approach with control theory as a basic discipline. This approach aims at developing an efficient model in a simpler understandable way to reduce efforts required for modeling complex multi-domain problems. The modeling approach is complemented with other modeling techniques such as artificial neural networks (ANN) to overcome a number of modeling difficulties. In this paper, the model is applied to the city of Gold Coast, Australia, and simulation results are presented as an application case. Our model is designed in such a way that it can be adapted to other local conditions by changing the local parameters and data for whatever the regional case.

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