Energy, Exergy, and Thermo-Economic Analysis of Renewable Energy-Driven Polygeneration Systems for Sustainable Desalination

Reliable production of freshwater and energy is vital for tackling two the most critical issues world facing today: climate change sustainable development. In this light, a comprehensive review performed on foremost renewable energy-driven polygeneration systems using thermal membrane desalination. Thus, designed to outline latest developments integrated desalination based multi-stage flash (MSF), multi-effect distillation (MED), humidification-dehumidification (HDH), reverse osmosis (RO) technologies. Special attention paid innovative approaches modelling, design, simulation, optimization improve energy, exergy, thermo-economic performance decentralized plants accounting electricity, space heating cooling, domestic hot water, production, among others. Different are investigated, including those assisted by solar, biomass, geothermal, ocean, wind, hybrid sources. addition, recent literature applying exergoeconomic, exergoenvironmental analysis reviewed establish comparison between range renewable-driven systems.