2. Wild Life Protection: The process can not have an adverse affect of the local Wild Life. The citizens and government have strict rules where they do not want fatalities or destruction of the habitat of the local Wild Life.
3. Green Power Usage: To lessen the environmental impact of the process a green source of power should be used for the process of desalination.
4. Low Air Pollution: The process should have little or no air pollution. The state of California may have good air pollution policy, but they still deal with some of the worst air quality issues in the U.S. They do not want another air polluting process.
5. Low Water Pollution: The process should have little or no pollution affects of the water. Desalination has a brine waste that has high salinity. This waste can harm the environment. The impact of this waste needs to be as minimal as possible.
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7. Beneficial: The source needs to provide for agricultural development as it’s the most rapid in the nation and leading food supply.
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11. Clean Clear Look: We are trying to create a potable water source for our customers. Customers need to have trust in a new water source. If the water is not as clear as the current water sources (water bottle/tap water) they will not like the product and not trust it.
12. Good Water Smell: Our product needs to smell clean also. Customers will not trust water that smells different from the current sources.
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14. Facility Visibility: Any type of facility should not be visible from more than 2 miles away.
15. System Location: Piping and/or other water movement methods should be kept within low population density areas outside of communities.
34. Facility Production: The desalination process needs to produce at least 35.5 thousand acre-feet of water per day to supply 30% of the water consumption of the state.
70. The salt after desalination will be returned to the ocean in the same content it was receivedWhat this means in general is that with the attributes brainstormed and quantified by engineering specification created through customer requirements, we have developed a situation that best meets a field of ideal targets to solve a problem. While this is our outcome, it’s important to realize that it may not be the best solution. At any given time, an option can be more attractive in 4 out of 5 areas, but the other critical criteria may eliminate the higher ranked attribute after the conceptual stage. It’s important to take a decisional outcome as only the best option, no necessarily the practical one.<br />When observing our pros and cons of energy sources, it’s apparent that the nuclear source is well qualified to be the clean energy required to run the system and better suits a process like desalination. This can also be true for the location of the pipe as placing it far off shore creates a many engineering difficulties that don’t get illustrated when focusing on customer speak. Overall the process did succeed in giving us the most relative outcome to meet the customer requirements set. The objective of the designing process was completed up to a conceptual design decision and ended with a proposal for implementing the more widespread use of desalination as a water recovery step for the state of California. <br />Appendix A: House of Quality<br />Appendix B<br />Decision Matrix Weights<br />HOQWeightspowerpower out215.80.228sourcegreen source279.20.295cost 1650.175visibility 111.90.118current use173.30.183sum945.21.000HOQWeightsstorageStorage265.30.361location256.30.348current system173.30.236facility power40.60.055sum735.51.000HOQweightswater intakeintake location256.40.355intake fatality137.60.191Production215.80.299visibility111.90.155sum721.71.000HOQweightswaste man.waste water quality1970.260current system173.30.228facility impact223.80.295cost1650.217sum759.11.000HOQweightsLocationintake fatality137.60.205sys location256.40.382visibility111.90.167cost1650.246Sum670.91.000<br />Appendix C<br />Works Cited<br />[1] California Water Crisis. Web. 01 Nov. 2010. <http://www.calwatercrisis.org/>.<br />[2] Aquafornia. 13 Aug. 2008. Web. 01 Nov. 2010. <http://aquafornia.com/where-does-californias- water-come-from>.<br />[3] Population Per Square Mile. 2000. Photograph. Travellistics. Web. 28 Oct. 2010. <br />[4] quot;
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