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The third route: A techno-economic evaluation of extreme water and wastewater decentralization
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WoS WOS:000794234100001
Scopus SCOPUS_ID:85129288904
DOI 10.1016/J.WATRES.2022.118408
Año 2022
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Autores Afiliación Chile

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Abstract



Water systems need to become more locally robust and sustainable in view of increased population demands and supply uncertainties. Decentralized treatment is often assumed to have the potential to improve the technical, environmental, and economic performance of current technologies. The techno-economic feasibility of implementing independent building-scale decentralized systems combining rainwater harvesting, potable water production, and wastewater treatment and recycling was assessed for six main types of buildings ranging from single-family dwellings to high-rise buildings. Five different treatment layouts were evaluated under five different climatic conditions for each type of building. The layouts considered varying levels of source separation (i.e., black, grey, yellow, brown, and combined wastewater) using the corresponding toilet types (vacuum, urine-diverting, and conventional) and the appropriate pipes and pumping requirements. Our results indicate that the proposed layouts could satisfy 100% of the water demand for the three smallest buildings in all but the aridest climate conditions. For the three larger buildings, rainwater would offset annual water needs by approximately 74 to 100%. A comprehensive economic analysis considering CapEx and OpEx indicated that the cost of installing on-site water harvesting and recycling systems would increase the overall construction cost of multi-family buildings by around 6% and single-family dwellings by about 12%, with relatively low space requirements. For buildings or combined water systems with more than 300 people, the estimated total price of on-site water provision (including harvesting, treatment, recycling, and monitoring) ranged from $1.5/m3 to $2.7/m,3 which is considerably less than the typical tariffs collected by utilities in the United States and Western Europe. Where buildings can avoid the need to connect to centralized supplies for potable water and sewage disposal, water costs could be even lower. Urine-diversion has the potential to yield the least expensive solution but is the least well developed and had higher uncertainty in the cost analysis. More mature layouts (e.g., membrane bioreactors) exhibited less cost uncertainty and were economically competitive. Our analysis indicates that existing technologies can be used to create economically viable systems that greatly reduce demands on centralized utilities and, under some conditions, eliminate the need for centralized water supply or sewage collection.

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Revista ISSN
Water Research 0043-1354

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Environmental Sciences
Water Resources
Engineering, Environmental
Scopus
Civil And Structural Engineering
Waste Management And Disposal
Water Science And Technology
Pollution
Ecological Modeling
Environmental Engineering
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Publicaciones WoS (Ediciones: ISSHP, ISTP, AHCI, SSCI, SCI), Scopus, SciELO Chile.

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Autores - Afiliación



Ord. Autor Género Institución - País
1 Garrido-Baserba, Manel Hombre inCTRL Solutions Corp. - Estados Unidos
inCTRL Solut Corp - Estados Unidos
inCTRL Solut - Estados Unidos
2 Barnosell, Irene Mujer Universitat de Girona - España
Univ Girona - España
3 Molinos-Senante, Maria Mujer Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile - Chile
Centro de Investigación para la Gestión Integrada del Riesgo de Desastres (CIGIDEN) - Chile
Centro Nacional de Investigacion para la Gestion Integrada de Desastres Naturales - Chile
4 Sedlak, David L. Hombre University of California, Berkeley - Estados Unidos
UNIV CALIF BERKELEY - Estados Unidos
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering - Estados Unidos
5 Rabaey, Korneel - Universiteit Gent - Bélgica
Centre for Advanced Process Technology for Urban Resource Recovery (CAPTURE) - Bélgica
Univ Ghent - Bélgica
Ctr Adv Proc Technol Urban Resource Recovery Capt - Bélgica
6 Schraa, Oliver Hombre inCTRL Solutions Corp. - Estados Unidos
inCTRL Solut Corp - Estados Unidos
7 Verdaguer, Marta Mujer Universitat de Girona - España
Univ Girona - España
8 Rosso, Diego Hombre University of California, Irvine - Estados Unidos
Univ Calif Irvine - Estados Unidos
Samueli School of Engineering - Estados Unidos
9 Poch, Manel Hombre Universitat de Girona - España
Univ Girona - España

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Universiteit Gent
De Watergroep

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Agradecimiento
Project PANDÈMIES 2020, urban water cycle ResIlient To pAndemics (RITA) of the Government of Catalonia, Spain. KR is supported by De Watergroep, (project number) as well as the Ghent University Bijzonder Onderzoeksfonds (GOA GRANT NUMBER). MMS Chilean National Research Center for Integrated Disaster Risk Management CONICYT/FONDAP/ 990 15110017 (CIGIDEN). LEQUIA has been recognized as a consolidated research group by the Catalan Government (2017-SGR-1552).

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