Engineering management of desalination plants in Saudi Arabia using fuzzy decision analysis

Abstract

Abstract The fuzzy set theory is used in this analysis to help the decision-makers in selecting the most likely to succeed engineering management strategy for the operation of large desalination plants Saudi Arabia. Five alternative strategies are suggested for the problem of desalination plants management. Fuzzy set theory and MAFDA computer code are used in the analysis. Fourteen criteria were selected. The final results show that the best solution is to use the computer and simulation strategy, and the second best is to use the local workers who had been trained in foreign countries.