Renewable Energy Powered Desalination Handbook - Application and Thermodynamics

Renewable Energy Powered Desalination Handbook: Applications and Thermodynamics offers a practical handbook on the use of renewable technologies to produce freshwater using sustainable methods. Sections cover the different renewable technologies currently used in the field, including solar, wind, geothermal and nuclear desalination. This coverage is followed by an equally important clear and rigorous discussion of energy recovery and the thermodynamics of desalination processes. While seawater desalination can provide a climate-independent source of drinking water, the process is energy-intensive and environmentally damaging. This book provides readers with the latest methods, processes, and technologies available for utilizing renewable energy applications as a valuable technology.
Desalination based on the use of renewable energy sources can provide a sustainable way to produce fresh water. It is expected to become economically attractive as the costs of renewable technologies continue to decline and the prices of fossil fuels continue to increase.

List of contents

1. Introduction to renewable energy powered desalination2. Solar Powered Desalination3. Wind Powered Desalination4. Geothermal Desalination - Potential Benefits and Considerations for Implementation5. Geothermal Desalination to Address Water Supply Issues in GCC, MENA and Sub-Saharan Countries6. Nuclear Desalination - State of the art7. Impacts and Analysis of nuclear desalination8. Desalination costs using renewable energy sources9. Energy-water nexus islands10. Energy Storage in Desalination11. Energy Recovery Devices in Membrane Desalination Processes12. Thermodynamic and thermoeconomic analysis of MED processes13. Exergy analysis of MSF and other configurations14. Exergy Analysis of Solar Desalination

Product details

• Authors: Gnaneswar Gude
• Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.03.2018
• EAN: 9780128152447
• ISBN: 978-0-12-815244-7
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 28 mm x 229 mm
• Weight: 1020 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Heat, energy and power station engineering; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Water Supply, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Power Resources / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Microbiology, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Chemical & Biochemical, Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology, Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology, Water supply and treatment, Water purification & desalinization