Sharqawy, Mostafa H.; Zubair, Syed M.; Lienhard, John H. - In: Energy 36 (2011) 11, pp. 6617-6626
A second law analysis of a reverse osmosis desalination plant is carried out using reliable seawater exergy formulation … instead of a common model in literature that represents seawater as an ideal mixture of liquid water and solid sodium chloride … to calculation of the seawater flow exergy, the minimum work of separation, and the second law efficiency. The most up …