Water Desalination: Most Available Alternative over the Earth for Covering the Freshwater Shortage
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Resources and Sustainable Utilization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2024 | Viewed by 4156
Special Issue Editors
2. Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Islamic University, Madinah 42351, Saudi Arabia
Interests: environmental engineering; water quality; water and wastewater treatment; desalination; solid waste management
Interests: water and wastewater treatment and recycling; desalination; water quality management; groundwater pollution, and remediation; solid waste management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The freshwater shortage is an alarming problem in many regions of the world, especially the arid regions. Freshwater demand has risen due to increases in urbanization and the population worldwide. The fresh surface water is very limited as it is around 0.3% of earth water. The groundwater withdrawal and glaciers melting may provide some resources for fresh water, but they are not available everywhere. Seawater desalination may introduce the best solution for providing freshwater as access to saltwater is available for most countries. The process is usually costly and extensively consumes energy resources. The challenge is to find new technologies providing a high enough quantity of water with low-cost and eco-friendly applications. For example, using direct solar energy for the desalination of seawater may introduce the best low-cost and clean option; however, the main disadvantage of this process is the low productivity. Thus, intensive research work is needed to solve all these difficulties and introduce an updated process, which will provide the world with the magic solution for the water shortage. The scope of this special issue, therefore, is to review the current desalination processes, identify the advantages and disadvantages of these processes, and explore new technologies to reduce the current drawbacks. Both experimental and theoretical papers are welcome. Topics of potential relevance to this special issue include but are not limited to:
- Thermal desalination processes;
- Desalination processes by membrane technologies;
- Desalination technology combinations.
- Renewable energy sources that can provide good energy options for desalination;
- Hybrid desalination technology.
- Solar still desalination process.
We look forward to receiving your papers.
Prof. Dr. Abdelkader T. Ahmed
Dr. Md. Shafiquzzmaan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- desalination
- seawater
- thermal processes
- membrane technologies
- renewable energy sources
- solar still