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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"solar desalination"”.
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Novel Photothermal Materials and Thermally Engineered Membranes for Solar Desalination
… and population growth. Among various desalination technologies, membrane distillation has gained wide attention due to its ability to treat highly saline water utilizing waste heat from industrial processes. However, the implementation of conventional membrane distillation is hindered …
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The application of solar desalination for water purification in Cyprus
… of Cyprus. From this analysis the need for desalination systems to provide fresh water, is established.<br/><br/>A survey of solar desalination systems shows that there arc two broad categories of such systems; namely direct and indirect collection systems. The latter type is adopted and a …
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High Efficiency Solar Desalination and Superheated Steam Generation Utilizing Contactless Infrared Heating
… a novel configuration of a Contactless Solar Evaporation Structure (CSES), which has been prototyped over 41 experiments and 4 design iterations. The final design is able to utilize ~20% of solar energy (under 1 sun) to radiatively boil water for purposes of desalination (i.e. clean …
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Experimental and mathematical analysis of a solar desalination system: a step towards sustainable water production
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Design and Analysis of a Parabolic Trough Solar Concentrator
<p>A prototype solar desalination system (SODESAL) with a parabolic-trough solar concentrator (PTSC) and evacuated tube was designed and analyzed to determine the solar thermal capabilities for small-scale distillation and energy generation. A proof-of-concept study verified that distillation is …
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Photo-Thermal Application of a Polydimethylsiloxane Foam Embedded with Carbon Nanoparticles for Interfacial Solar Water Evaporation
… achieve excellent photo-thermal properties for solar desalination applications. The effect of different foam parameters on the photo-thermal performance of the CNP/PDMS foams was investigated and demonstrated in this thesis. The results showed that the addition of a small amount of the CNP …
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Investigations on Solar Powered Direct Contact Membrane Distillation
Desalination is one of the proposed methods to meet the ever increasing water demands. It can be subdivided into two broad categories, thermal based desalination and electricity based desalination. Multi-effect Distillation (MED), Multi-Stage Flashing (MSF), Membrane Distillation (MD) fall under …
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The water line : research into the peculiar place of the Namib Desert coast
… is a testing space for a small scale solar desalination and fog catching system that services a hydrology research center base, as well as attempting to incorporate a more public exposure to this form of technology and the water resource potential it provides. Before design within this …
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Block Copolymer Derived Porous Carbon Fiber for Energy and Environmental Science
… application of PFCs is updating evaporative desalination methods for water purification. Currently distillation is not widely used as a source of potable water owing to the high cost and energy requirement. Solar desalination could serve as a low-cost method for desalination; however, the …