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Feasibilty study of renewable energy powered seawater desalination technology using natural vacuum technique

Ayhan, Teoman; Al Madani, Hussain - In: Renewable Energy 35 (2010) 2, pp. 506-514

With an ever-increasing population and rapid growth of industrialization, there is great demand for fresh water. Desalination has been a key proponent to meet the future challenges due to decreasing availability of fresh water. However, desalination uses significant amount of energy, today...

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Factors affecting basin type solar still productivity: A detailed review

Muftah, Ali. F.; Alghoul, M.A.; Fudholi, Ahmad; … - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 32 (2014) C, pp. 430-447

performance of solar stills. The results showed that the distillation productivity of solar stills are significantly influenced by … the fact that distillation productivity of solar still is heavily influenced by climatic, operational, and design …

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A graphical method to estimate the efficiency of a solar concentrator

Nijegorodov, N.; Jain, P.K.; Devan, K.R.S. - In: Renewable Energy 5 (1994) 1, pp. 373-375

A graphical method to estimate the efficiency of a solar concentrator used for heating and boiling liquids is described. The method involves the measuring of temperature of stagnated liquid in the absorber as a function of time at noon. The graphically estimated efficiency is within 5% of the...

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Energy-use analysis and evaluation of distillation systems through avoidable exergy destruction and investment costs

Wei, Zhiqiang; Zhang, Bingjian; Wu, Shengyuan; Chen, Qinglin - In: Energy 42 (2012) 1, pp. 424-433

exergy analysis and an exergoeconomic evaluation to identify the potential energy savings in distillation processes. Methods … for calculating the avoidable/unavoidable exergy destructions and investment costs for distillation columns, and hot …-utility/cold-utility heat exchangers are proposed. For a distillation column, the unavoidable exergy destruction is estimated through the …

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Design and control of an ideal heat-integrated distillation column (ideal HIDiC) system separating a close-boiling ternary mixture

Huang, Kejin; Shan, Lan; Zhu, Qunxiong; Qian, Jixin - In: Energy 32 (2007) 11, pp. 2148-2156

Despite the fact that a stand-alone ideal heat-integrated distillation column (ideal HIDiC) can be thermodynamically …

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Integration of thermal energy and seawater desalination

Deng, Runya; Xie, Lixin; Lin, Hu; Liu, Jie; Han, Wei - In: Energy 35 (2010) 11, pp. 4368-4374

Energy and freshwater shortage are the bottlenecks restricting China's economic development. The integration of energy utilization system and seawater desalination is considered as an innovative technology enabling efficient simultaneous use of middle or low temperature thermal energy and supply...

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A new and applicable method to calculate mass and heat transfer coefficients and efficiency of industrial distillation columns containing structured packings

Sadeghifar, Hamidreza; Kordi, Safe; Akbar, Ali - In: Energy 36 (2011) 3, pp. 1415-1423

Most of the methods developed for efficiency estimation of distillation columns were based on the empirical mass … efficiency (and mass and heat transfer coefficients) of distillation columns containing structured packings. This method has … of any structured packing, including new ones, in distillation columns. …

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Theory and experimental investigation of a weir-type inclined solar still

Sadineni, S.B.; Hurt, R.; Halford, C.K.; Boehm, R.F. - In: Energy 33 (2008) 1, pp. 71-80

A weir-type solar still is proposed to recover rejected water from the water purifying systems for solar hydrogen production. This consists of an inclined absorber plate formed to make weirs, as well as a top basin and a bottom basin. Water is flowed from the top basin over the weirs to the...

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Performance and cost evaluation of a new double-effect integration of multicomponent bioethanol distillation

Bessa, Larissa C.B.A.; Ferreira, M.C.; Batista, Eduardo A.C. - In: Energy 63 (2013) C, pp. 1-9

efforts to achieve a low-carbon emissions world. Since distillation accounts for a large part of total energy consumption by …

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Exergy analysis of an experimental heat transformer for water purification

Rivera, W.; Huicochea, A.; Martínez, H.; Siqueiros, J.; … - In: Energy 36 (2011) 1, pp. 320-327

First and second law of thermodynamics have been used to analyze the performance of an experimental heat transformer used for water purification. The pure water is produced in the auxiliary condenser delivering an amount of heat, which is recycled into the heat transformer increasing the heat...

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