Abstract The objective of this paper is to compare, under Dutch market conditions, the energy consumption and net costs membrane-based advanced treatment processes for three water reuse types (i.e. potable, industrial, agricultural reuse). source municipal wastewater plant effluent. Results indicate that application reverse osmosis needed reclaim high quality industrial potable but not irrigati...

Domestic RO systems are commonly installed in households for water purification and treatment, typically drinking purposes. While effectively remove impurities, such as dissolved salts, minerals, contaminants from tap water, they produce a concentrated waste stream known reject. This reject contains the that were removed during filtration process. can be utilized other domestic, agricultural, i...

In recent years, reverse osmosis water desalination has developed rapidly and become the most competitive widely used technology in world. The number of plants is increasing as freshwater needs increase. Various membrane technologies have been improved, including nanofiltration (NF) (RO), whose costs relatively reduced. Therefore, this work proposes an experimental study for a small unit based ...

This paper presents a thermoeconomic analysis of polygeneration system based on solar-assisted desiccant cooling. The overall plant layout supplies electricity, space heating and cooling, domestic hot water, freshwater for residential building. combines photovoltaic/thermal collectors, photovoltaic panels, biomass boiler coupled with reverse osmosis air conditioning. was modeled in TRNSYS simul...

In this paper, a solar energy powered bicycle by a wireless sensor network (WSN) far-end network monitoring solar energy to transfer the electrical energy storage and the effectiveness analysis is proposed. In order to achieve this goal, an embarked ZigBee by a solar-powered bicycle the far-end wireless network supervisory system is setup. Experimental results prove that our prototype, the sola...

Emerging technologies increase the needs on self efficient mobile robotic applications that bring a new concern of sustainable and continuous power supply for the robotic platforms. This paper covers the various techniques and technologies used to design a solar powered robot, exploring the currently available products, software and limitations to this application. The main aim is to integrate ...