Journal
KOREAN JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Volume 33, Issue 2, Pages 351-387Publisher
KOREAN INSTITUTE CHEMICAL ENGINEERS
DOI: 10.1007/s11814-015-0296-3
Keywords
Renewable Energy; Desalination; Thermo-economic; Energy; Exergy
Funding
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant - Korean government (MSIP) [2015R1A2A2A11001120]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2015R1A2A2A11001120, 22A20130011020] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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Due to the current fossil fuel crisis and associated adverse environmental impacts, renewable energy sources (RES) have drawn interest as alternatives to fossil fuels for powering water desalination systems. Over the last few decades the utility of renewable energy sources such as solar, geothermal, and wind to run desalination processes has been explored. However, the expansion of these technologies to larger scales is hampered by techno-economic and thermo-economic challenges. This paper reviews the state-of-the-art in the field of renewable energy-powered thermal desalination systems (RE-PTD) to compare their productivity and efficiency through thermodynamic, economic, and environmental analyses. We performed a comparative study using published data to classify RE-PTD systems technologies on the basis of the energy collection systems that they use. Among RE-PTD systems, solar energy powered-thermal desalination systems demonstrate high thermo-environ-economic efficiency to produce fresh water to meet various scales of demand.
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