Renewable energy systems for water desalination applications: A comprehensive review

SM Alawad, RB Mansour, FA Al-Sulaiman… - Energy Conversion and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Renewable energy sources are expected to provide viable alternative solutions for water
desalination to address the issues of high-energy consumption and negative environmental …

A review of solar energy driven desalination technologies

H Sharon, KS Reddy - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Water plays an important role in all our day to day activities and its consumption is
increasing day by day because of increased living standards of mankind. Some regions of …

Water distillation tower: Experimental investigation, economic assessment, and performance prediction using optimized machine-learning model

AH Elsheikh, EMS El-Said, M Abd Elaziz, M Fujii… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Here we present a new compact design of a vertical water distillation tower based on solar
stills. The experimental setup consisted of a vertical tower with five water trays, supported by …

Application of solar energy in water treatment processes: A review

Y Zhang, M Sivakumar, S Yang, K Enever… - Desalination, 2018 - Elsevier
The utilization of solar energy to drive water treatment processes is a potential sustainable
solution to the world's water scarcity issue. In recent years, significant efforts have been …

Solar assisted sea water desalination: A review

C Li, Y Goswami, E Stefanakos - Renewable and sustainable energy …, 2013 - Elsevier
Seawater desalination is an important process to meet the increasing demand for fresh
water demand; however, it is highly energy intensive due to the high salinity of the source …

Experimental investigation of a solar still with composite material heat storage: energy, exergy and economic analysis

AE Kabeel, GB Abdelaziz, EMS El-Said - Journal of cleaner production, 2019 - Elsevier
In the present paper, comparative study of solar still with internal reflector and composite
black gravel-phase change material for thermal heat storage (THS) was presented …

A comprehensive techno-economical review of indirect solar desalination

MT Ali, HES Fath, PR Armstrong - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2011 - Elsevier
Solar powered desalination has been the focus of great interest recently worldwide. In the
past, majority of the experimental investigations focused on solar coupled thermally driven …

A hybrid desalination system using humidification-dehumidification and solar stills integrated with evacuated solar water heater

SW Sharshir, G Peng, N Yang, MA Eltawil… - Energy conversion and …, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper offers a hybrid solar desalination system comprising a humidification-
dehumidification and four solar stills. The developed hybrid desalination system reuses the …

Comparative study based on thermal, exergetic and economic analyses of a tubular solar still with semi-circular corrugated absorber

SM Elshamy, EMS El-Said - Journal of cleaner production, 2018 - Elsevier
The solar still is one of the best choices for obtaining fresh water, in small scale demands
which covering the demand for remote arid regions which do not have enough power source …

Application of solar energy in the oil industry—Current status and future prospects

MA Halabi, A Al-Qattan, A Al-Otaibi - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2015 - Elsevier
The scope of this review is to highlight the potential contributions of solar energy in meeting
the energy requirements of the oil and gas industry. It includes an assessment of the key …