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 …

Characterization and cost analysis of a modified silica gel-based adsorption desalination application

AS Alsaman, AA Askalany, EMM Ibrahim… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study aims to reduce adsorption desalinated water cost by innovative employing silica
gel/CaCl 2 composite and novel silica gel/(NH 4) 2 CO 3 activated materials. Raw silica gel …

Adsorption desalination: an emerging low-cost thermal desalination method

KC Ng, K Thu, Y Kim, A Chakraborty, G Amy - Desalination, 2013 - Elsevier
Desalination, other than the natural water cycle, is hailed as the panacea to alleviate the
problems of fresh water shortage in many water stressed countries. However, the main …

Review on adsorption materials and system configurations of the adsorption desalination applications

WS Hua, HJ Xu, WH Xie - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Adsorption desalination is an emerging desalination technology with low energy
consumption, which is based on the principle of desalination by using the adsorption and …

Pilot studies on synergetic impacts of energy utilization in hybrid desalination system: multi-effect distillation and adsorption cycle (MED-AD)

HS Son, MW Shahzad, N Ghaffour, KC Ng - Desalination, 2020 - Elsevier
The hybridization of desalination processes is one of the most promising technologies to
overcome the current limitations of desalination technologies while maximizing the …

A review of recent advances in adsorption desalination technologies

N Riaz, M Sultan, T Miyazaki, MW Shahzad… - … Communications in Heat …, 2021 - Elsevier
Adsorption-based desalination (AD) is an emerging concept to co-generate distilled fresh
water and cooling applications. The present study is aimed to provide a comprehensive …

Recent developments in thermally-driven seawater desalination: Energy efficiency improvement by hybridization of the MED and AD cycles

KC Ng, K Thu, SJ Oh, L Ang, MW Shahzad, AB Ismail - Desalination, 2015 - Elsevier
The energy, water and environment nexus is a crucial factor when considering the future
development of desalination plants or industry in the water-stressed economies. New …

Experimental investigation of sodium polyacrylate-based innovative adsorbent material for higher desalination and cooling effects

AS Alsaman, EMM Ibrahim, MS Ahmed, ES Ali… - Energy Conversion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study explores enhancing adsorption system's performance utilizing sodium
polyacrylate (SP) as an adsorbent for the first time. Four innovated SP samples are explored …

Multi effect desalination and adsorption desalination (MEDAD): A hybrid desalination method

MW Shahzad, KC Ng, K Thu, BB Saha… - Applied Thermal …, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper presents an advanced desalination cycle that hybridizes a conventional multi-
effect distillation (MED) and an emerging yet low-energy adsorption cycle (AD). The …