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INDUSTRIAL WATER DEMAND WITH WATER REUSE 1
Author(s) -
Liaw ChaoHsien,
Chen LiangChing,
Chan LiMei
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
jawra journal of the american water resources association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.957
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1752-1688
pISSN - 1093-474X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2006.tb04478.x
Subject(s) - reuse , price elasticity of demand , industrial water , work (physics) , environmental science , water resources , inverse demand function , computer science , water resource management , economics , waste management , microeconomics , engineering , demand curve , ecology , mechanical engineering , biology
This work establishes an industrial water demand (IWD) model for a short term estimate, which considers water reuse technologies and discharge regulations, for the integrated circuit (IC) industry in northern Taiwan. Based on the optimization of an industrial water cost system, a computerized system dynamics model (SD model) is developed to generate individual firm IWD using data from year 2000. A market IWD is further constructed for 25 1C firms in the study area and is approximated by an inverse logistic curve. Analytical results demonstrate that price elasticity varies with water price in cases involving water reuse.