Desalination is a well-established technology used all over the world to mitigate freshwater scarcity. Wind-powered reverse osmosis plants are one of most promising alternatives for renewable energy desalination, particularly coastal areas and islands. Wind can satisfy high consumption desalination while reducing costs CO2 emissions. However, mismatch between intermittent availability wind reso...

Reverse osmosis is a widely used desalination technique, mainly because of its low specific energy consumption. Autonomous reverse processes are increasingly developed their efficiency and the decentralization numerous water stress areas. In this context, process powered by an innovative thermo-hydraulic system using heat has been developed. This new aims to autonomously produce fresh from brac...

This paper presents sizing, energy management strategy, and cost analysis for a configuration consisting of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, fuel cell (FC) storage system, and reverse osmosis (RO) desalination technology for combined power and fresh water production. In this system, PV is the main power supply source; fuel cell is a storage system accompanied by Hydrogen production and storage d...

The use of saline water resources in agriculture is becoming a common practice semi-arid and arid regions such as the Mediterranean. In SmaCuMed project, desalination brackish groundwater (TDS = 2.8 g/L) for irrigation Argan trees Essaouira, Morocco, to 2 g/L 1 (33% 66% salt removal, respectively) using low-pressure reverse osmosis (LPRO) (p < 6 bar) membrane capacitive deionization (MCDI) w...

background: chromium (cr) is the most important element used to plate other metals and electroplating factories are still consid­ered to be the most important industries which pollute the environment to this metal. this paper describes a study con­ducted to determine the efficiency of reverse-osmosis (ro) as a membrane technique for removal of cr from wastewater sam­ples synthetically prepared ...

background: desalination plants have an important role in providing community drinking water. the increasing trend of water consumption and decrease of natural resources of fresh water make this role even more important. the aim of this study was to evaluate the quality of inlet and outlet water of desalination plants by reverse osmosis (ro) process in qeshm, iran and also to compare the qualit...

Growing populations and periodic drought conditions have exacerbated water stress in many areas worldwide. In response, some municipalities have considered desalination of saline water as a freshwater supply. Unfortunately, desalination requires a sizeable energy investment. However, renewable energy technologies can be paired with desalination to mitigate concern over the environmental impacts...

background: reverse osmosis (ro) is an increasingly common method of desalination. a full scale water desalination system by membrane technology (ro) evaluated in a southern city (jask) in iran. methods: first, data collection on water supply and network were performed. analysis on most of the water quality parameters (turbidity, ph, ec, cl-, na+, alkalinity, ca, na, k, no3, no2, fe, mg, mn, nh...

Membrane processes have been successfully employed for treatment of a large number of industrial effluents. Reverse osmosis (RO) and ultrafiltration (UF) are versatile separation and purification tools for the process industries. Both of these techniques are based on the ability of pressure-driven filtration membranes to separate multi-component fluids based on molecular size, shape, and chemic...