The use of solar thermal systems to produce heat for industrial processes is a feasible option
that is gaining increasing interest in recent years as an initiative toward the zero-carbon …

The primary problem with membrane distillation (MD) for concentrating hypersaline
wastewaters is its severe membrane scaling induced by increasing salt concentration of …

Heat pump assisted membrane distillation (MD) has recently been proposed as a new
method for simultaneous heating and cooling of membrane distillation. In this work, the cost …

In this experiment, octadecyltrichlorosilane was used to modify silica with different particle
sizes, so that silica particles changed from hydrophilic to hydrophobic. Two different coating …

Understanding the energy efficiency of direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) is
important for the widespread application and practical implementation of the process. This …

In this work, the optimal management of the water grid belonging to a pilot agro-industrial
district, based on greenhouse cultivation, is analyzed. Different water supply plants are …

This study establishes a stochastic mixed integer nonlinear programming model for a two-
stage emergency multiclass material scheduling problem considering traffic congestion with …

This work describes the development of an integrated method for the design of networks of
flat plate solar collectors and a temperature control strategy. The main stages of this …

This book offers a systematic study of control algorithms applied in the operation of solar
membrane distillation (SMD) facilities. After a short introduction to membrane distillation …

This chapter describes the works performed in the last development stage of the Ph. D.
thesis. This last stage was focused on developing control and optimization algorithms for …