Desalination Technologies and Renewable Energy Sources
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water-Energy Nexus".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (24 November 2023) | Viewed by 1262
Special Issue Editor
2. KA.CARE Energy Research and Innovation Center at Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Interests: desalination; heat and mass transfer; evaporation and condensation; power systems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The desalination of sea and brackish waters is becoming an essential means of supplying fresh water in an increasing number of countries worldwide. Conventional desalination technologies suffer from major limitations including high energy consumption, low recovery ratio and environmental impacts associated with brine discharge. The use of renewable energy (RE) sources to power desalination systems is identified as a promising way to tackle the above-mentioned limitations of fossil fuel desalination plants. However, several barriers limiting the industrial development and implementation of RE desalination units are still present such as the high investment cost of RE equipment and the intermittent behavior of RE systems.
The proposed Issue can be viewed as a framework for both original contributions and state-of-the-art reviews on integrated RE desalination facilities. Several technical, economic and environmental aspects will be addressed for various scenarios and configurations of coupling desalination and renewable energy systems. This Issue will also focus on the challenges and barriers of sustainable desalination.
Topics of interest for presentation in this Issue include but are not limited to:
- Innovative sustainable desalination;
- Solar photovoltaic (PV) and desalination;
- Solar thermal energy and desalination;
- Wind energy and desalination;
- Geothermal energy and desalination;
- Solar power and desalination cogeneration;
- Cost analysis of RE desalination;
- Sustainability, life cycle analysis and environmental impacts of desalination.
Dr. Jamel Orfi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- solar desalination
- geothermal energy
- solar interfacial evaporation
- PV‒reverse osmosis
- hybrid desalination driven by RE sources
- cost of desalinated water using RE sources
- energy storage
