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Product Feature

Environmental Coastal & Ocean Modeling Tool

Makai is expanding its environmental and coastal modeling three dimensions and time. The modeling results are used in services for clients who discharge into, or withdraw from, the the design, planning, and permitting process for the intake world’s oceans, lakes, and reservoirs. Makai recently com- or discharge of a variety of facilities, including desalination, pleted a three-year effort to adapt the EPA-approved Envi- seawater cooling systems including once through cooling sys- ronmental Fluid Dynamics Code (EFDC) into a robust and tems, LNG processing plants, petroleum re? neries, traditional ? exible dispersion and water quality modeling tool. The new thermoelectric power plants, pulp and paper mills, chemical

Makai EFDC modeling system (M-EFDC) is designed to sim- manufacturing plants, food processing plants, and metal man- ulate and predict the dispersion of large industrial water ? ows. ufacturing plants. The M-EFDC suite can model ? ows across

Combined with Makai’s experienced team, the new M-EFDC a wide range of sizes and time-scales. This enables developers enables cost-effective modeling solutions ranging from initial to understand the physical, chemical, and biological impacts project planning to more rigorous regulatory submittals and and decide between design variations in the water system. For watershed management efforts. example, M-EFDC can help with the site selection for the

The adapted M-EFDC model is a hydrodynamic and wa- water intake or discharge pipes, model thermal and chemical ter quality model used to simulate aquatic systems in up to plume dispersion, and enable regional nutrient and biological

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