DesalinationEconomicEvaluationProgram(Deep-3.0).pdf

COMPUTER MANUAL SERIES No. 19 Desalination Economic Evaluation Program (DEEP-3.0) User’s Manual COMPUTER MANUAL SERIES No. 19 Desalination Economic Evaluation Program (DEEP-3.0) User’s Manual INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY, VIENNA, 2006 The originating Section of this publication in the IAEA was: Nuclear Power Technology Development Section International Atomic Energy Agency Wagramer Strasse 5 P.O. Box 100 A-1400 Vienna, Austria DESALINATION ECONOMIC EVALUATION PROGRAM (DEEP-3.0) IAEA, VIENNA, 2006 IAEA-CMS-19 © IAEA, 2006 Printed by the IAEA in Austria April 2006 FOREWORD DEEP is a Desalination Economic Evaluation Program developed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and made freely available for download, under a license agreement (/nucleardesalination). The program is based on linked Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and can be useful for evaluating desalination strategies by calculating estimates of technical performance and costs for various alternative energy and desalination technology configurations. Desalination technology options modeled, include multi-stage flashing (MSF), multi-effect distillation (MED), reverse osmosis (RO) and hybrid options (RO-MSF, RO-MED) while energy source options include nuclear, fossil, renewables and grid electricity (stand-alone RO) . Version 3 of DEEP (DEEP 3.0) features important changes from previous versions, including upgrades in thermal and membrane