The acceptance of smart solutions on desalination plants
| Main Authors: | Colijn, Kevin, van Osch, Nick, Staring, Jim, Tiwon, Mitchell |
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| Other Authors: | Meesters, Kenny, Decamps, Tobias |
| Format: | info publication-workingpaper Journal |
| Terbitan: |
, 2020
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/3628797 |
Daftar Isi:
- By 2025 at least half of the world’s population will be living in water-stressed areas. Desalination, the process of the removal of salts and minerals from a target substance, is one of the solutions to counter freshwater scarcity. There are approximately 12500 desalination plants worldwide. But these plants are costly, both to build and to operate. Industry 4.0 offers new solutions to bring down costs and energy usage. But giving existing desalination plants a “smart” makeover is also costly. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the technology acceptance of smart desalination plants within water critical areas. An extended version of the technological acceptance (TAM) model with new variables is proposed. These variables are partly tested through two different types of data collection; interviews and surveys. More research is needed to validate the complete model. This paper contains the basis needed in order to conduct further research.