abstract aims: one of the consequences of taking ground water into surface is changing its chemical quality, specially increasing the concentration of dissolved salts. this research was performed in order to analyze growth possibility of heterotrophic bacteria in the membrane of active desalination plants in kashan city, iran. instrument & methods: this descriptive cross-sectional study was don...

Water shortages affect 88 developing countries that are home to half of the world’s population. In these places, 80-90% of all diseases and 30% of all deaths result from poor water quality. Furthermore, over the next 25 years, the number of people affected by severe water shortages is expected to increase fourfold. Low cost methods to desalinate brackish water and sea water can help reverse thi...

This paper continues and concludes the study of the proposed high-efficiency combined desalination and refrigeration system based on the LiBr–H2O absorption cycle introduced in the paper that is Part 1 [Proposal and analysis of a high-efficiency combined desalination and refrigeration system based on the LiBr– H2O absorption cycle––Part 1: System configuration and mathematical model. Energy Con...

• China will have enough nuclear power by 2030 to eradicate water scarcity. • Nuclear desalination would be affordable even for the poorest Chinese households. • It emits hundreds of times less CO2 than the STNWTP and coal desalination. • Nuclear desalination should be used to supply water to the coastal demand centers. • Water supply from STNWTP should be limited to remote provinces. a b s t r...

Multi-effect distillation with thermal vapor compression (MED-TVC) is a highly energy-efficient desalination technology that can provide reliable and sustainable source of high-quality water, particularly in areas limited energy infrastructure water resources. In this study, numerical model based on exergoeconomic approach developed to analyze the economic performance MED-TVC system for seawate...

A microbial desalination cell (MDC) is able to desalinate salt water without energy consumption whilst generating bioenergy. Previously MDCs used abiotic cathodes, which are restricted in application by high operating costs and low levels of sustainability whereas, in the present study, an aerobic biocathode consisting of carbon felt and bacterial catalysts was tested. The biocathode MDC produc...

Two major reverse osmosis seawater desalination plants are planned for construction in Spencer Gulf and Gulf St. Vincent, South Australia. A state-of-the-art and carefully calibrated hydrodynamic model (COHERENS) is employed to predict the fate of desalination brine in these sheltered inverse estuaries. In this study, we assume that the brine discharged has a salinity being twice that of ambien...

Desalination capacity has rapidly increased in the last decade because of the increase in water demand and a significant reduction in desalination cost as a result of significant technological advances, especially in the reverse osmosis process. The cost of desalinated seawater has fallen below US$0.50/m for a large scale seawater reverse osmosis plant at a specific location and conditions whil...