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Opportunities for solar water desalination worldwide: Review
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In this paper, the authors present an extensive review of water desalination and solar desalification technologies that have been developed in recent years and the state-of-the-art for most important efforts in the field of desalization by using solar energy, including the economic and environmental aspects.About:
This article is published in Sustainable Cities and Society.The article was published on 2013-12-01. It has received 276 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Desalination & Solar desalination.read more
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Energy-water-environment nexus underpinning future desalination sustainability
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a state-of-the-art review on energy, water and environment interconnection and future energy efficient desalination possibilities to save energy and protect environment.
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Recent progress in the use of renewable energy sources to power water desalination plants
Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem,Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem,M. El Haj Assad,Enas Taha Sayed,Bassel Soudan +4 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the importance of water resources in modern societies and the challenges facing modern societies, while water covers about two thirds of the surface of the earth, while air covers less than one third of it.
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Wood-Based Nanotechnologies toward Sustainability.
TL;DR: Here, strategies for designing novel wood-based materials via advanced nanotechnologies are summarized, including both the controllable bottom-up assembly from the highly crystalline nanocellulose building block and the more efficient top-down approaches directly from wood.
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Water desalination system using solar heat: A review
M. Chandrashekara,Avadhesh Yadav +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, various solar thermal desalination methods such as direct and indirect methods have been discussed The indirect methods are preferable for medium and large scale Desalination systems, whereas the direct methods employing the solar stills are more suitable for small scale systems.
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Energy and environmental issues in desalination
TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarized the environmental impacts of most aspects of desalination processes, highlighting the recognized problems and their available industrial solutions and special emphasis is placed on the energy as it is one of the most important environmental issues and a major expense in desalification.
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Seawater desalination using renewable energy sources
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of various systems that use renewable energy sources for desalination, including solar collectors, photovoltaics, solar ponds and geothermal energy.
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Water desalination cost literature: review and assessment
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Techno-economic assessment and environmental impacts of desalination technologies
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a comprehensive review and assessment of desalination technologies such as thermal which includes multi-stage flash (MSF) and multiple effect distillation (MED), membrane reverse osmosis (RO), and hybrid (MS F/MED-RO).
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Solar thermal desalination technologies
Hazim Qiblawey,Fawzi Banat +1 more
TL;DR: The use of solar energy in thermal desalination processes is one of the most promising applications of the renewable energies as discussed by the authors, however, it requires large land areas and has a relatively low productivity.