A salt-rejecting floating solar still for low-cost desalination

Indirect Solar Desalination: Value Engineering and Cost Benefit Analysis

This study examines the feasibility of indirect solar desalination in oil producing countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. It relies on value engineering (VE) and costbenefit with sensitivity analyses to identify optimal coupling configurations of desalination and solar energy technologies. A comparative return on investment was assessed as a function of water costs for va...

Solar Power Technologies for Desalination

Throughout the world, there are regions of vast extent that have many favorable features, but whose development is principally limited by the lack of fresh water. In arid areas where large-scale development has already occurred, e.g. parts of the Middle East and North Africa, the extraction of fresh water via desalination plants requires very large energy consumption. This motivates the develop...

Simulation of solar still processes of salt water

All around planet Earth, access to drinkable fresh water is a problem with increasing relevance, being its scarceness the origin of many diseases, namely in underdeveloped countries and a potential motivation to future conflicts. The present work focuses in the modelling of solar still systems of salt water, aiming at producing fresh water, having considered for that purpose four types of insta...

Hybrid Technology Solar Thermal Membrane Desalination of Salt Water for Populations In The Saloum River Delta

s The use of brackish water in the Saloum Delta in Senegal can be made by combining the processes of desalination as a source of solar energy, usually thermal and photovoltaic processes for membrane distillation. But the demand for energy is growing; the use of solar energy can be a good solution, given the high solar potential in these areas. Different experiences around the world have shown t...

Experimental Analysis of a Vertical, Double-Effect Diffusion Solar Still