Salinity, seawater

Capital Costs A typical medium-scale RO seawater plant might produce 0.25 mVs (6 MGD). For a plant with an open sea intake, seawater salinity of 38 g/1, and conversion of 45 percent, the overall cost woiild be 26.5 miUiou (1996). A capital breakdown is given in Table 22-18. Capital charges are site specific, and are sensitive to the salinity of the feed. A plant of this size would likely contain six trains. For seawater RO, the Best estimate for the slopes of the family of lines in Fig. 22-55 is —0.6 for the equipment and 0.95 for the membranes. Capital charges, shown in TaBle 22-19, usually dominate the overall economics the numbers presented are only an example. Seawater economics are based on Shields and Moch, Am. Desalination Assn. Conf. Monterey CA (1996). 

Anfalt and Jagner [57] measured total fluoride ion concentration by means of a single-crystal fluoride selective electrode (Orion, model 94-09). Samples of seawater were adjusted to pH 6.6 with hydrochloric acid and were titrated with 0.01 M sodium fluoride with use of the semi-automatic titrator described by Jagner [28]. Equations for the graphical or computer treatment of the results are given. Calibration of the electrode for single-point potentiometric measurements at different seawater salinities is discussed. 

Huber Ch, Klimant I, Krause Ch, Wemer T, Mayr T, Wolfbeis OS (2000) Optical sensor for seawater salinity. Fresenius J Anal Chem 368 196—202... 

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It is well known that seawater is supersaturated with respect to calcite in surface waters (Morse and Mackenzie, 1990). For example, at a seawater salinity = 35, Pco2 = 3.3e—4 atm, and alkalinity = 0.00240 equivalents kg-1, Morse and Mackenzie (1990) estimated that seawater is 2.8- and 6.5-fold su-... 

In this chapter, we examine biogeochemical applications of the FREZCHEM model to Earth, Mars, and Europa, where cold aqueous environments played and continue to play a critical role in defining surficial geochemistry. Interpretations include the potential for life in these environments. These simulations cover applications to seawaters, saline lakes, regoliths, aerosols, and ice cores and covers. These examples are the proverbial tip of the iceberg in terms of the potential of this model to describe cold aqueous geochemical processes. At the end of the chapter, we discuss application limitations, cases where the underlying thermodynamic assumptions are at variance with real-world situations. 

In the solar evaporation ponds, salinities in the cores reached almost four times oceanic values. In these cores the concentration profile of bimane sulfide with depth also tracked that of methylene blue sulfide and bimane total reduced sulfur tracked DTNB. However, the difference between the bimane method and the other two methods is unacceptably large and suggests that there was some inhibition of the bimane reaction. Pore water samples which were diluted to normal seawater salinity with 200 mM HEPES buffer pH 8 were not inhibited. Dilution will of course lead to a loss of sensitivity for trace thiols. Another factor which can effect the yield of the bimane reaction is the unusual... 

In a more recent work Ito [101] has described a simple and highly sensitive ion chromatographic method with ultraviolet detection for determining iodide in seawater. A high-capacity anion exchange resin with polystyrene-divinylbenzene matrix was used for both preconcentration and separation of iodide. Iodide in artificial seawater (salinity, 35 % ) was trapped quantitatively (98.8 0.6%) without peak broadening on a preconcentrator column and was separated with 0.35M sodium perchlorate+ 0.10M phosphate buffer (pH 6.1). On the other hand, the major anions in seawater, chloride and sulphate ions, were partially trapped (5-20%) and did not interfere in the determination of iodide. The detection limit for iodide was 0.2pg L 1 for 6mL of artificial seawater. This method was apphed to determination of iodide (ND-18.3pg L ) and total inorganic iodine (I +I03 -I, 50.0-52.7pg L 1) in seawater samples taken near Japan. 

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