Current progress in integrated solar desalination systems: Prospects from coupling configurations to energy conversion and desalination processes

SM Shalaby, FA Hammad, ME Zayed - Process Safety and Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work, the recent advances in solar-powered water desalination systems are reviewed
in detail. The recently published designs of solar-powered desalination systems such as …

Membrane distillation driven by solar energy: a review

SM Shalaby, AE Kabeel, HF Abosheiasha… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

Solar thermal feed preheating techniques integrated with membrane distillation for seawater desalination applications: Recent advances, retrofitting performance …

SA El-Agouz, ME Zayed, AMA Ghazala… - Process Safety and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) is a promising technology for seawater desalination, integrating
the advantages of both membrane segregation and thermal distillation. High energy …

[HTML][HTML] Salinity gradient solar ponds hybrid systems for power generation and water desalination

M Tawalbeh, RMN Javed, A Al-Othman… - Energy Conversion and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Solar energy is preferred over other energy sources because of its low cost, ease of
collecting, and availability as a source of power, as well as its effectiveness in reducing …

Energy efficiency of direct contact membrane distillation

R Ullah, M Khraisheh, RJ Esteves, JT McLeskey Jr… - Desalination, 2018 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) is a promising technology due to its ability to function using low
temperature differences and low-quality heat sources, thus allowing it to operate on solar or …

Hybrid desalination processes for beneficial use of reverse osmosis brine: Current status and future prospects

S Lee, J Choi, YG Park, H Shon, CH Ahn, SH Kim - Desalination, 2019 - Elsevier
As water shortage has increasingly become a serious global problem, desalination using
seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) is considered as a sustainable source of potable water …

The roles of oxygen-containing functional groups in modulating water purification performance of graphene oxide-based membrane

H Yu, Y He, G Xiao, Y Fan, J Ma, Y Gao, R Hou… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
Due to the excellent mechanical properties and tunable inter-layer distance spacing (D-
spacing), graphene oxide based nanofiltration membranes (GONMs) have attracted …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging membrane technologies for water and energy sustainability: Future prospects, constraints and challenges

S Roy, S Ragunath - Energies, 2018 - mdpi.com
The increasing demand for global energy consumption expedites major opportunities for the
innovation of green energy technologies. Addressing the issue of sustainable energy is …

A novel solar-driven direct contact membrane-based water desalination system

A Shafieian, M Khiadani - Energy Conversion and Management, 2019 - Elsevier
This study proposes a novel integrated solar membrane-based desalination system. The
system includes vacuum glass tubes to increase absorbed solar energy and to decrease …

Feasibility investigation of a humidification-dehumidification (HDH) desalination system with thermoelectric generator operated by a salinity-gradient solar pond

H Rostamzadeh, AS Namin, P Nourani, M Amidpour… - Desalination, 2019 - Elsevier
Water distillation via solar energy is investigated potentially as an appreciable topic across
the globe in recent decades. While many high-efficient solar collectors are developed for this …