Homework Problem 3

Water desalination

It is assumed that you are a chemical engineer, employed by the ministry of science, and that you have to decide
the allocation priorities for inventions by Israelis who have proposed 15 new processes for water desalination:

  1. Saltworks Technologies.
  2. Import glaciers from the north or the south pole region
  3. Evaporation of waste heat water.
  4. Using the difference in sea water temperatures.
  5. The Hurricane method.
  6. The VSEP electrochemical method.
  7. Forward OsmosisĀ  modernwater.com FOR Desal Commercial Reality
  8. The Passarell process.
  9. Geothermal desalination.
  10. Using microbial desalination cells.
  11. The Aquaver process.
  12. Carbon nanotubes
  13. Membrane distillation.
  14. Graphene sheets
  15. Aquaporin

Each of the inventors thinks that his/her idea deserves theĀ  support of the Science ministry.
However, the ministry can afford to support only one new idea in this field.

Which process do you recommend?

Use the 3 dimensions evaluation process, or any other method.