The Use of Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems for Water Desalination
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 April 2024) | Viewed by 12768
Special Issue Editors
Interests: energy-water; smart energy systems; intelligent control
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Interests: water–energy nexus; energy efficiency; microgrids
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Given the significant water-energy issues associated with many remote and arid regions worldwide, desalination technologies powered by renewable energy are seeing increased usage in research, projects, and developments in freshwater production plants. This Special Issue aims to publish the most exciting research regarding the use of renewables to drive water desalination. The Special Issue will provide a rapid turnaround time for review and publication and will disseminate the articles freely for the purposes of research, teaching, and reference.
Desalination can be performed using various technologies, but the process involves relatively high energy consumption and therefore high production costs, although recent technological advances have managed to reduce specific energy consumption. Fossil fuels are currently the most used energy source for powering various industrial-scale desalination technologies, but their rising price trends and associated air pollution issues have necessitated the use of alternative or complementary energy sources. Numerous authors have highlighted the benefits derived from desalination using hybrid (conventional renewables) and fully renewable energy sources, stressing that the latter are clean, cheap, and inexhaustible.
We are seeking high-quality papers directly related to various aspects of water-energy issues. Novel study techniques are encouraged.
Dr. Pedro Jesús Cabrera Santana
Dr. Enrique Rosales Asensio
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- renewable system-powered desalination plants
- new management strategies and techniques
- behavior and modelling
- case studies
- potentialities and future scalability
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