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Literature survey

About: Literature survey is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 15372 publications have been published within this topic receiving 459196 citations.


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TL;DR: A comprehensive list of literatures on characterizations, formation mechanism, and applications of titania nanotubes was compiled and reviewed in this paper, showing that the dependence of TNT attributes on the synthesis conditions and on the post-treatments significantly dominates the feasibility of applications.

451 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of the highlights that have been achieved during the recent years worldwide and the state-of-the-art for most important efforts in the field of desalination by renewable energies, with emphasis on technologies and economics.
Abstract: Energy is an essential ingredient of socio-economic development and economic growth. Renewable energy provides a variable and environmental friendly option and national energy security at a time when decreasing global reserves of fossil fuels threatens the long-term sustainability of global economy. The integration of renewable resources in desalination and water purification is becoming increasingly attractive. This is justified by the fact that areas of fresh water shortages have plenty of solar energy and these technologies have low operating and maintenance costs. In this paper an attempt has been made to present a review, in brief, work of the highlights that have been achieved during the recent years worldwide and the state-of-the-art for most important efforts in the field of desalination by renewable energies, with emphasis on technologies and economics. The review also includes water sources, demand, availability of potable water and purification methods. The classification of distillation units has been done on the basis of literature survey till today. A comparative study between different renewable energy technologies powered desalination systems as well as economics have been done. The real problem in these technologies is the optimum economic design and evaluation of the combined plants in order to be economically viable for remote or arid regions. Wind energy technology is cheaper than the conventional ones, and used extensively around the world. The slow implementation of renewable energy projects especially in the developing countries are mostly due to the governments subsides of conventional fuels products and electricity. The economic analyses carried out so far have not been able to provide a strong basis for comparing economic viability of each desalination technology. The economic performances expressed in terms of cost of water production have been based on different system capacity, system energy source, system component, and water source. These differences make it difficult, if not impossible, to assess the economic performance of a particular technology and compare it with others. Reverse osmosis is becoming the technology of choice with continued advances being made to reduce the total energy consumption and lower the cost of water produced.

450 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a comprehensive literature survey of northeastern disturbances, emphasizing papers that studied late-successional, undisturbed, or presettlement forests and found that such forests were dominated by relatively frequent, partial disturbances that produced a finely patterned, diverse mosaic dominated by late successional species and structures, while large-scale, catastrophic stand-replacing disturbances were rare, returning at intervals of at least one order of magnitude longer than gap-producing events.

449 citations

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TL;DR: It is evident from the literature survey that decolorization by the adsorption shows a great promise for the removal of color from dyehouse effluent and if biomasses want to compete with the established ion-exchange resins and activated carbon, their dye binding capacity will need to be substantially improved.

449 citations

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TL;DR: Evaluating the performance of several state-of-the-art heuristics from the literature on the basis of a standard set of test instances and point out to the most promising procedures is presented.

445 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
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202239
2021987
2020987
2019816
2018799
2017870