Near-Field Dilution Characteristics of a Negatively Buoyant Hypersaline Jet Generated by a Desalination Plant
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- 1 January 2011
- journal article
- Published by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
- Vol. 137 (1) , 57-65
Abstract
Field experiments were conducted to investigate the near-field dilution characteristics of a hypersaline brine discharge into coastal waters via an offshore diffuser from a desalination plant. The aim was to determine the dilution of the negatively buoyant plume as it exited the diffuser under three different discharge Froude number regimes (one-third, two-thirds, and full-flow capacity) and to compare these measurements to scaling arguments derived from laboratory measurements. Equations based on the densimetric jet Froude number F , obtained from laboratory experiments, were found to adequately describe the dilution of the brine for cases when F>20 . For F<20 , no laboratory results exist and the dilution was found to be greater than that anticipated from an extrapolation of the laboratory results.Keywords
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