Thermal-based renewable and low-grade energy sources to operate humidification-
dehumidification (HDH) desalination systems are critically reviewed. The investigated …

Amid the global energy and climate crises, research on waste heat recovery has become
imperative, with extensive studies focusing on assessing waste heat potential and …

Multi-effect desalination (MED) systems are highly promising for high salinity seawaters at
large scales, and hence are used broadly in desalination plants. Despite the fact that the …

Thermoeconomic analysis, a combined application of thermodynamic and economic
analyses, has emerged as an important tool to optimize the performance of desalination …

Three different modifications of the reversal multi-stage flash (MSF) plant are proposed and
compared. One configuration consists of hybrid MSF and membrane distillation (MD) …

Nuclear desalination of seawater or brackish water represents an important application of
nuclear energy. There is increasing interest in this pathway of augmenting freshwater …

The escalating freshwater demand is stimulating the researchers to optimize the
performance of desalination technologies. The current study presents the exergoeconomic …

Integration of energy recovery section with thermal desalination systems improves their
performance from thermodynamics, economics, and environmental viewpoints. This is …

Thermal desalination processes generally consume a huge amount of thermal energy and
industries release a large amount of latent waste heat in flue gas exhausts into the …

In this study, a novel hybrid desalination/cooling system is investigated. The system
combines a triple-effect absorption (TEAB) heat pump (whose working fluid is LiBr/water …