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Coupling of PV-powered R.O. brackish water desalination plant with solar stills

Hasnain, S.M.; Alajlan, S. - In: Renewable Energy 14 (1998) 1, pp. 281-286

Desalination of water is essential to supply sufficient good quality water to remote areas to satisfy various needs …) powered water desalination Reverse Osmosis (R.O) plant at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. …

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Water resources in the GCC countries: A strategic option

Al-Hajri, Khalid R.; Al-Misned, Lulwa A. - In: Renewable Energy 5 (1994) 1, pp. 524-528

Water is a strategic commodity. Presently, scarcity of water supply in the GCC countries is overcome by desalination …

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Design and optimization of desalination reverse osmosis plants driven by renewable energies using genetic algorithms

Bourouni, K.; Ben M’Barek, T.; Al Taee, A. - In: Renewable Energy 36 (2011) 3, pp. 936-950

Renewable energy sources (RES) for powering desalination processes is a promising option especially in remote and arid … desalination processes to be coupled with different renewable energy sources such as solar and wind. …

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Efficiency analysis of the Solarflow – An innovative solar-powered desalination unit for treating brackish water

Dallas, Stewart; Sumiyoshi, N.; Kirk, J.; Mathew, K.; … - In: Renewable Energy 34 (2009) 2, pp. 397-400

The Solarflow was invented at The Environmental Technology Centre, Murdoch University (the Murdoch ETC) in Perth, Western Australia as part of a doctoral thesis in the early 1990s researching suitable water treatment systems for remote indigenous communities. The design has been modified since...

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Solar distillation of water using a V-trough solar concentrator with a wick-type solar still

Mahdi, J.T.; Smith, B.E. - In: Renewable Energy 5 (1994) 1, pp. 520-523

A V-trough solar concentrator has been combined with an inclined flat-plate wick-type solar still. Outdoor testing was carried out with and without the solar concentrator on clear days in summer and winter. The equipment was used to investigate the enhancement of the outdoor performance of the...

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Brackish water desalination by a stand alone reverse osmosis desalination unit powered by photovoltaic solar energy

Hrayshat, Eyad S. - In: Renewable Energy 33 (2008) 8, pp. 1784-1790

Desalination of brackish water as a viable option to cope with water scarcity and to overcome water deficit in Jordan … is assessed. A stand alone reverse osmosis (RO) desalination unit powered by photovoltaic (PV) solar energy is proposed …

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Solar energy applications in Pakistan

Raja, Iftikhar A.; Dougar, M.G.; Abro, R.S. - In: Renewable Energy 9 (1996) 1, pp. 1128-1131

The energy deficit budget of Pakistan demands for an energy transition from limited fossil fuel reserves to abundant renewable energy sources. With a modest research and development programme for solar energy utilisation, PCSIR and DGNRER concentrated on both solar thermal and PV systems. The...

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Component sizing for an autonomous wind-driven desalination plant

Koklas, Panagiotis A.; Papathanassiou, Stavros A. - In: Renewable Energy 31 (2006) 13, pp. 2122-2139

-driven desalination plant. For this purpose, a suitable logistic model of such a system is developed, which simulates its steady … main components (wind turbine, desalination plant and batteries). For each case, the annual water production is calculated … the feasibility of the stand-alone system. Other important factors, such as the desalination unit start/stop operations …

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Increasing the technical and economic performance of wind diesel systems by including fresh water production

Bindner, Henrik; Lundsager, Per - In: Renewable Energy 9 (1996) 1, pp. 887-890

desalination system. …

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Performance analysis in stepped solar still for effluent desalination

Velmurugan, V.; Naveen Kumar, K.J.; Noorul Haq, T.; … - In: Energy 34 (2009) 9, pp. 1179-1186

In this work, a stepped solar still and an effluent settling tank are fabricated and tested for desalinating the textile effluent. The effluent is purified in an effluent settling tank. In this tank, large and fine solid particles are settled and clarified. The settled effluents are used as raw...

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