Publication detail

DEA as a useful tool for assessing the economic efficiency of wastewater treatment plants

TURKOVÁ, J. KORYTÁROVÁ, J.

Original Title

DEA as a useful tool for assessing the economic efficiency of wastewater treatment plants

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

Project of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) should be evaluated in terms of environmental, economic and social sustainability. The EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) encourages all European countries to pay attention to the efficient utilization of natural resources and the impacts of human activities on the water. This article was focused on the implementation of an assessment tool for the economic efficiency of WWTPs, which can be employed as supplementary to the traditionally methodologies. Wastewater treatment processes produce desirable outputs (treated water) together with undesirable pollutants, and inputs are related to the cost of the operation and maintenance. The efficiency evaluation was provided through the use of the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) across a sample of the WWTPs in the South Moravian Region in the Czech Republic. This non-parametric method, which is based on linear programming, divided these functional units into effective and ineffective scores. The obtained results can be of help to managers during the ex-ante decision-making process and also for ex-post evaluation with a focus on factors of success and failure and on the sustainability of results and impacts. Finally, the DEA was successfully used in many previous studies for the calculation of techno-economic efficiency.

Keywords

Data Envelopment Analysis, Efficiency Assessment, Environmental Impact, Sustainability, Wastewater Treatment Plant

Authors

TURKOVÁ, J.; KORYTÁROVÁ, J.

Released

2. 11. 2016

Publisher

STEF92 Technology Ltd.

Location

Sofia, Bulgaria

ISBN

978-6-1971-0579-7

Book

Water Resources. Forest, Marine and Ocean Ecosystems

Edition

16th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM 2016

Edition number

3

ISBN

1314-2704

Periodical

International multidisciplinary geoconference SGEM

Year of study

3

State

Republic of Bulgaria

Pages from

61

Pages to

68

Pages count

8

URL

https://www.proquest.com/docview/2014479760/1F368C3A1EC04DFDPQ/1?accountid=17115

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT131216,
  author="Jiřina {Vrbková} and Jana {Korytárová}",
  title="DEA as a useful tool for assessing the economic efficiency of wastewater treatment plants",
  booktitle="Water Resources. Forest, Marine and Ocean Ecosystems",
  year="2016",
  series="16th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM 2016",
  journal="International multidisciplinary geoconference SGEM",
  volume="3",
  number="3",
  pages="61--68",
  publisher="STEF92 Technology Ltd.",
  address="Sofia, Bulgaria",
  doi="10.5593/sgem2016HB33",
  isbn="978-6-1971-0579-7",
  issn="1314-2704",
  url="https://www.proquest.com/docview/2014479760/1F368C3A1EC04DFDPQ/1?accountid=17115"
}