El-Ghonemy, A.M.K. - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 16 (2012) 8, pp. 6384-6422
Shortage of drinking water is chronic, severe, and wide-spread in the regions of Northern Africa, Middle East, and Central and Southern Asia. Conventional processes like MSF and RO require large amounts of energy in the form of thermal energy (for MSF) or electric power (for RO). Most...