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Seawater desalination using renewable energy sources
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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.About:
This article is published in Progress in Energy and Combustion Science.The article was published on 2005-01-01. It has received 949 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Geothermal desalination & Desalination.read more
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Water Purification by Membranes: The Role of Polymer Science
Geoffrey M. Geise,Hae-Seung Lee,Daniel J. Miller,Benny D. Freeman,James E. McGrath,Donald R Paul +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarized the nature of the global water problem and reviewed the state of the art of membrane technology and identified existing deficiencies of current membranes and the opportunities to resolve them with innovative polymer chemistry and physics.
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Pumped hydro energy storage system: A technological review
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the existing global pumped hydro energy storage capacities, technological development, and hybrid systems and recommended the best possible options for small autonomous island grids and massive energy storage, where the energy efficiency of PHES varies in practice between 70% and 80%.
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Multifunctional Porous Graphene for High‐Efficiency Steam Generation by Heat Localization
TL;DR: The novel 3D nanoporous graphene demonstrates a highly energy-effective steam generation with an energy conversation of 80% in a heat generator to convert solar illumination into high-energy steam.
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Nanostructured materials for water desalination.
Thomas Humplik,Jongho Lee,Sean C. O'Hern,Batya Fellman,Mirza Baig,Syed Fida Hassan,Muataz Ali Atieh,Faiz-Ur Rahman,Tahar Laoui,Rohit Karnik,Evelyn N. Wang +10 more
TL;DR: This review focuses on nanostructured materials that are directly involved in the separation of water from salt as opposed to mitigating issues such as fouling and can potentially enable the development of next-generation desalination systems with increased efficiency and capacity.
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Fundamental water and salt transport properties of polymeric materials
TL;DR: A survey of polymers considered for such applications is provided in this paper, where a solution diffusion model is used as a framework for discussing structure/property relations in polymers related to water and salt transport properties.
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Solar engineering of thermal processes
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an active and passive building heating system for solar thermal power systems, where the active system is designed by f--chart and the passive one by Utilizability Methods.
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Solar Engineering of Thermal Processes
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an active and passive building heating system for solar thermal power systems, where the active system is designed by f--chart and the passive one by Utilizability Methods.
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Thermodynamics : An Engineering Approach
Yunus A. Cengel,Michael A. Boles +1 more
TL;DR: The first law of thermodynamics -closed systems, control volumes, and the second law of entropy -a measure of disorder energy -are the properties of pure substances of high-speed fluid flow as mentioned in this paper.
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Solar thermal collectors and applications
TL;DR: A survey of the various types of solar thermal collectors and applications is presented in this paper, where an analysis of the environmental problems related to the use of conventional sources of energy is presented and the benefits offered by renewable energy systems are outlined.
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Geothermal energy technology and current status: an overview
TL;DR: Geothermal energy is the energy contained as heat in the Earth's interior as mentioned in this paper, and it has been exploited for decades to generate electricity, and both in space heating and industrial processes.