Seawater and Brackish Water Desalination

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• Seawater and Brackish Water Desalination

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The global cumulative investments in desalination
plants reached roughly 21.4 billion in 2015 and
should reach nearly 48.2 billion by 2020, with a
compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of
17.6. This report provides-An overview of
the global market for seawater and brackish water
desalination -Analyses of global market trends,
with data from 2014, estimates for 2015, and
projections of compound annual growth rates
(CAGRs) through 2020 -Descriptions of various
desalination methods, including multistage flash
distillation, multi-effect distillation, vapor
compression, reverse osmosis, and
nanofiltration -Discussion of novel desalination
methods, including freezing, gas hydrate
formation, membrane distillation, and capacitive
deionization -Examination of the seawater and
brackish water desalination plants industry on a
worldwide basis, both from a market and
application perspective -Profiles of major and
minor companies working on or in conjunction with
desalination plants.
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INTRODUCTION STUDY GOALS AND OBJECTIVES This
comprehensive technology market research report
evaluates the global market for saline water
desalination plants. The goals are to provide
meaningful information, unbiased analysis, and an
assessment of the roles that desalination can
play now and in the future of water treatment
technology. Technical aspects of both thermal and
membrane desalination processes are outlined, as
well as a few alternative techniques that may be
viable in the future. The report analyzes the
water needs of 18 countries in five world
regions. Known projects by country for the next
five years are presented, along with estimated
capacity additions, market values, and growth
rates for each world region.
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REASONS FOR DOING THE STUDY This report updates
a previous Research report on the same topic that
was published in 2013. The need for pure water is
a problem of global proportions and has become
even more urgent since the earlier report became
available. Water treatment is an issue of global
concern as individuals, communities, industries,
countries, and national institutions strive for
ways to keep this essential resource available
and suitable for use. Increasingly,
desalination systems are selected as an effective
option to deliver pure water to the public by
transforming saline, brackish, and contaminated
water into useable and/or potable products. In
part, this increased demand drives the
development of technical advances in desalination
processes and parallel price drops in the
processes, especially membrane-based methods.
These advances have made desalination systems
affordable for countries that were previously
unable to consider the possibility, thus creating
a robust and rapidly growing market in which
projects and corporate developments are
constantly evolving.
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INTENDED AUDIENCE This report was prepared for a
broad audience of business, technical, and
regulatory professionals on a global scale. The
document will serve as a source of information
about the industry a reference manual on
desalination technology and a data resource for
decision-makers who must stay abreast of the
state of the art. Its market outlook should be
valuable to manufacturers and suppliers, as well
as to local, state, and federal governments and
foreign legislatures. Engineers, utilities, and
corporate planners will benefit from accessing
information about the global demand for
desalination plants.
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SCOPE OF REPORT Desalination plants range from
the very small to large industrial or municipal
facilities. This report assesses the market for
the larger facilitiesthose with a daily capacity
of 1,000 or more cubic meters of produced water.
The study discusses the global water resource
status and the growing gap between freshwater
resources and water demand from all sectors.
Within this global context, the specific growth
drivers for and the challenges to the evolution
of the desalination equipment market are
presented. A technical overview of the primary
desalination technologies is provided, as well as
an overview of novel distillation methods. The
report presents the hypothetical unit cost of
water as produced by the primary technologies as
well as the sensitivity of that cost to
variations in economic parameters.
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METHODOLOGY AND INFORMATION SOURCES Both primary
and secondary research methodologies were used in
preparing this report. Research began with a
reanalysis of the available technical and
business literature, as well as an evaluation of
the water treatment industry records that were
available to the author. Information sources
for the study also included online research,
patent literature, and technical journals. In
evaluating the global market, information was
obtained from the U.S. Department of Commerce,
the U.S. Department of State, Aquastat, the
United Nations Global Water Information System
(GWI), and publications from the International
Desalination Association (IDA), the European
Desalination Association, and the Middle East
Desalination Research Center. The raw data for
all analyses relating to installed desalination
plants was sourced from IDA/GWI DesalData
Inventory Report 28.
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Table of Contents

• Desalination Plant Capacity Additions And
  Investments Global Market Outlook 46 2244
• Research Trends And National Desalination Rd
  Programs 19 927
• Desalination System Economics Unit Cost Of Water
  17 829
• Introduction - Complimentary 3 0
• Industry Structure 39 1903
• Technology Overview 19 927
• Patent Analysis 3 146
• Overview 14 683
• Glossary 5 244
• Summary 4 250

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