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WaterTAP3 (The Water Technoeconomic Assessment Pipe-Parity Platform)

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The Water Technoeconomic Assessment Pipe-Parity Platform (WaterTAP3) was developed under the National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) to facilitate consistent technoeconomic assessments of desalination treatment trains. The WaterTAP3 is an analytically robust modeling tool that can be used to evaluate water technology cost, energy, environmental, and resiliency tradeoffs across different water sources, sectors, and scales. The model simulates steady-state water treatment train performance and costs including flow and constituent mass balance across unit processes, based on source water conditions, configurations of treatment technologies, and system-level techno-economic assumptions. Users can build a new treatment train by connecting any number of unit processes, specific for their context and system, or selecting a train from the treatment train library. The model contains various technical and cost parameter options for a range of treatment processes and a library of influent water quality characteristics for a variety of source waters and case studies. Users can customize water quality parameters to evaluate the technology performance in their context. The model can be set up for different assessment needs including simulation, optimization, and uncertainty and sensitivity analyses. The results from WaterTAP3 can help identify trade-offs among the different system performance metrics, with insight on how particular technologies  More>>
Developers:
Miara, Ariel [1] ;  Talmadge, Michael [1] ;  Sitterley, Kurban [1] ;  Evans, Anna [1] ;  Huang, Zheng [1] ;  Macknick, Jordan [1] ;  McCall, James [1] ;  Kurup, Parthiv [1] ;  Akar, Sertac [1] ;  Van Allsburg, Kurt [1] ;  Stokes-Draut, Jennifer [2] ;  Bartholomew, Timothy [3] ;  Lee, Andrew [3] ;  Gingerich, Daniel [4]
  1. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
  2. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  3. National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, Morgantown, WV, and Albany, OR (United States)
  4. The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)
Release Date:
2021-06-08
Project Type:
Open Source, Publicly Available Repository
Software Type:
Scientific
Programming Languages:
Python
Python
Licenses:
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
Sponsoring Org.:
Code ID:
60620
Site Accession Number:
SWR-21-84
Research Org.:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Country of Origin:
United States

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Miara, Ariel, Talmadge, Michael, Sitterley, Kurban, Evans, Anna, Huang, Zheng, Macknick, Jordan, McCall, James, Kurup, Parthiv, Akar, Sertac, Van Allsburg, Kurt, Stokes-Draut, Jennifer, Bartholomew, Timothy, Lee, Andrew, and Gingerich, Daniel. WaterTAP3 (The Water Technoeconomic Assessment Pipe-Parity Platform). Computer Software. https://github.com/NREL/WaterTAP3. USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Energy Efficiency Office. Advanced Manufacturing Office. 08 Jun. 2021. Web. doi:10.11578/dc.20210709.1.
Miara, Ariel, Talmadge, Michael, Sitterley, Kurban, Evans, Anna, Huang, Zheng, Macknick, Jordan, McCall, James, Kurup, Parthiv, Akar, Sertac, Van Allsburg, Kurt, Stokes-Draut, Jennifer, Bartholomew, Timothy, Lee, Andrew, & Gingerich, Daniel. (2021, June 08). WaterTAP3 (The Water Technoeconomic Assessment Pipe-Parity Platform). [Computer software]. https://github.com/NREL/WaterTAP3. https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20210709.1.
Miara, Ariel, Talmadge, Michael, Sitterley, Kurban, Evans, Anna, Huang, Zheng, Macknick, Jordan, McCall, James, Kurup, Parthiv, Akar, Sertac, Van Allsburg, Kurt, Stokes-Draut, Jennifer, Bartholomew, Timothy, Lee, Andrew, and Gingerich, Daniel. "WaterTAP3 (The Water Technoeconomic Assessment Pipe-Parity Platform)." Computer software. June 08, 2021. https://github.com/NREL/WaterTAP3. https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20210709.1.
@misc{ doecode_60620,
title = {WaterTAP3 (The Water Technoeconomic Assessment Pipe-Parity Platform)},
author = {Miara, Ariel and Talmadge, Michael and Sitterley, Kurban and Evans, Anna and Huang, Zheng and Macknick, Jordan and McCall, James and Kurup, Parthiv and Akar, Sertac and Van Allsburg, Kurt and Stokes-Draut, Jennifer and Bartholomew, Timothy and Lee, Andrew and Gingerich, Daniel},
abstractNote = {The Water Technoeconomic Assessment Pipe-Parity Platform (WaterTAP3) was developed under the National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) to facilitate consistent technoeconomic assessments of desalination treatment trains. The WaterTAP3 is an analytically robust modeling tool that can be used to evaluate water technology cost, energy, environmental, and resiliency tradeoffs across different water sources, sectors, and scales. The model simulates steady-state water treatment train performance and costs including flow and constituent mass balance across unit processes, based on source water conditions, configurations of treatment technologies, and system-level techno-economic assumptions. Users can build a new treatment train by connecting any number of unit processes, specific for their context and system, or selecting a train from the treatment train library. The model contains various technical and cost parameter options for a range of treatment processes and a library of influent water quality characteristics for a variety of source waters and case studies. Users can customize water quality parameters to evaluate the technology performance in their context. The model can be set up for different assessment needs including simulation, optimization, and uncertainty and sensitivity analyses. The results from WaterTAP3 can help identify trade-offs among the different system performance metrics, with insight on how particular technologies or systems promote pipe-parity. The flexibility and comprehensive scope of the tool makes it a promising solution to industry-wide water technoeconomic evaluations, leading to more informed water investment decisions and technologies. As a user-friendly, open-source platform, WaterTAP3 can be used by industry, academia, policymakers, planners, and those with or without extensive analytical experience.},
doi = {10.11578/dc.20210709.1},
url = {https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20210709.1},
howpublished = {[Computer Software] \url{https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20210709.1}},
year = {2021},
month = {jun}
}