Renewable energy sources are expected to provide viable alternative solutions for water
desalination to address the issues of high-energy consumption and negative environmental …

The last decade has seen a worldwide increase in the use of alternative energy sources,
especially renewable energy (RE), including its application in desalination. In the past many …

The utilization of seawater for drinking purposes is limited by the high specific energy
consumption (SEC)(kW-h/m 3) of present desalination technologies; both thermal and …

Producing affordable freshwater has been considered as a great societal challenge, and
most conventional desalination technologies are usually accompanied with large energy …

Water and energy are critical components for human, and govern the growth and progress of
societies. Desalination is an important process to meet ever-increasing water demand …

Growing requirements of freshwater and unsustainable nature of fossil fuels are driving the
interest in using renewable energy for desalination applications. Due to their less energy …

Membrane distillation (MD) is an emerging thermally-driven technology that poses a lot of
promise in desalination, and water and wastewater treatment. Developments in membrane …

Membrane distillation (MD) is considered a promising technology that is expected to
compete with reverse osmosis (RO) for water desalination. The superiority of MD is mainly …

Membrane distillation (MD) has become an area of rapidly increasing research and
development since the 1990s, providing a potentially cost effective thermally-driven …

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 …