While water is a key resource required to sustain life, freshwater sources and aquifers are being depleted at an alarming rate. As a mitigation strategy, saline water desalination is …
A Al-Karaghouli, LL Kazmerski - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2013 - Elsevier
Desalination technologies improve water quality, greatly reduce water shortage problems, and improve quality of life and economic status. Two main technologies are currently used in …
In recent decades, problems related to fresh water has become a very important issue for humans. Small-scale desalination (SSD) systems, besides large-scale desalination (LSD) …
IC Karagiannis, PG Soldatos - Desalination, 2008 - Elsevier
As water resources are rapidly being exhausted, more and more interest is paid to the desalination of seawater and brackish water concentrations. Today, current desalination …
Water, energy, and environmental issues are closely related. New water techniques consume energy, and innovative renewable energy techniques using biofuels and biodiesel …
E Mathioulakis, V Belessiotis, E Delyannis - desalination, 2007 - Elsevier
Energy is a critical parameter for economic and of vital importance in social and industrial development, as it is also quality water. Numerous low-density population areas lack not …
VG Gude - Desalination and water treatment, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Energy consumption is a key factor which influences the freshwater production cost in reverse osmosis (RO) process. Energy recovery and reuse options have already been very …
Photovoltaic powered brackish water reverse osmosis (PV-BWRO) desalination systems have been proved to be a technically and economically mature choice for water supply in …
TH Yu, HY Shiu, M Lee, PT Chiueh, CH Hou - Desalination, 2016 - Elsevier
Assessment of life cycle environmental impacts and cumulative energy demand on a laboratory-scale capacitive deionizing (CDI) of brackish water was conducted in this study …