Water desalination and purification using renewable energy technologies

Water is an essential element of life as well as an integral cornerstone of any civilizations economic development. Although taken for granted by most living in developed nations, access to clean drinking water still proves to be a daily struggle for more than 1.2 billion individuals around the globe. More than 10% of the global population consumes food grown using waste water on a daily basis. Desalination facilities are in operation around the globe but are extremely large consumers of energy. There are several options available today which can reduce this energy demand and bring the desalination process down to a financially reasonable level. To this end, leading technologies have been explored in order to develop the best fit for both scalability and efficiency. The results show that reverse osmosis desalination, coupled with an energy recovery device, along with a wind turbine, yields an effective technological union.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Author dc:creator

• Broggi, Michael Louis

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dhamshala, Prakash
• Hiestand, James; Jones, Mike
• College of Engineering and Computer Science

• Saline water conversion
• Water -- Purification
• Wind turbines

Licence

• https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en

Language dc:language

English, eng

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholar.utc.edu/theses/205

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholar.utc.edu:theses-1345