For desalination to succeed in Texas, reliable, cost-effective, and adoptable technologies are needed. This will require scientific advances in pretreatment, characteristics of different sources of saline water, methods of salt separation, disposal of brine, effects of byproducts on the environment, and management of desalination facilities. Scientists at universities across Texas are investiga...

Current water desalination techniques are energy intensive and some use membranes operated at high pressures. It is shown here that water desalination can be accomplished without electrical energy input or high water pressure by using a source of organic matter as the fuel to desalinate water. A microbial fuel cell was modified by placing two membranes between the anode and cathode, creating a ...

We used a similar system to our previous system 2010 [1], which we built for the last year competition. However, we need to cope with the notable difficulty imposed in the TRECVID 2011MED task, i.e., the set of the target event classes and the set of the training event classes are completely disjoint. Thismeans that no sample video belonging to any of the target event classes is available in th...

Pumping systems are an integral part of water desalination plants, their effective functioning is vital for the operation of a plant. In this research work, the reliability and availability of pressurized pumps in a reverse osmosis desalination plant are studied with the objective of finding configurations that provides optimal performance. Six configurations of a series system with different n...

Quaternary ammonium poly(2,6-dimethyl 1,4-phenylene oxide) (QAPPO) anion exchange membranes (AEMs) with topographically patterned surfaces were assessed in a microbial desalination cell (MDC) system. The MDC results with these QAPPO AEMs were benchmarked against a commercially available AEM. The MDC with the non-patterned QAPPO AEM (Q1) displayed the best desalination rate (a reduction of salin...

Abstract Clean water is a necessity, yet it scarce due to the increase in demand. Desalination most reliable way of getting clean water. The commonest desalination process used and suitable rural areas solar still distillation. Although faces low production requires enhancements alongside quality checks. This study aims develop an improved system with quantity quality. was achieved by introduci...

As population and water demand increase, there is a growing need for alternative water supplies from water reuse and desalination systems. These systems are beneficial to water augmentation; however, there are concerns related to their carbon footprint. This study compiles the reported carbon footprint of these systems from existing literature, recognizes general trends of carbon footprint of w...

This paper introduces an innovative and cost-effective multi-generation plant, driven by the central receiver-based concentrated solar systems, to facilitate desired global green-transition process. The vanadium chlorine thermochemical cycle, which uses hydrogen instead of natural gas in combustion chamber, is used as approach for reducing greenhouse emissions. proposed system also includes a t...