potable water, the Canary Islands have been using desalination plants for nearly 50 years. The first desalination plant in … Europe was installed in 1964 in Lanzarote. Today, desalination capacity in the islands stands at over 600,000m3/d (covering … Euros yearly. Though desalination continues to be the main way of meeting water demand, its major drawback is the strong …

This paper introduces a novel concept for a hybrid desalination system that combines reverse electrodialysis (RED) and … to conventional seawater desalination RO processes. …

Seawater desalination is an important process to meet the increasing demand for fresh water demand; however, it is … highly energy intensive due to the high salinity of the source. Studies on using solar energy to drive seawater desalination … are very actively being pursued. This paper reviews the current solar desalination research activities first, followed by …