The staggering increase in water production, driven by population and economic growth, has consequently led to a massive energy demand, particularly countries that rely on desalination. Hence, the concept of water-energy nexus emerged as best option alleviate gap between demand production both power. This paper proposes new approach for co-optimizing electric power systems incorporating energy-...

Abstract Recently, the use of brackish diatoms has been proposed to remove various inorganic constituents, such as dissolved silica, nutrients, calcium, and bicarbonate, enhance freshwater recovery in reverse osmosis (RO). In this study, nine strains isolated from water sediment samples several evaporation ponds California Arizona were examined for their ability assimilate silica other constitu...

Reverse osmosis (RO) desalination is considered a viable alternative to reduce water scarcity; however, its energy consumption high. Photovoltaic (PV) in processes has gained popularity recent years. The temperature identified as variable that directly affects the behavior of different parameters RO process and production PV panels. objective this study was evaluate effect on polarization facto...

Throughout the world, there are regions of vast extent that have many favorable features, but whose development is principally limited by the lack of fresh water. In arid areas where large-scale development has already occurred, e.g. parts of the Middle East and North Africa, the extraction of fresh water via desalination plants requires very large energy consumption. This motivates the develop...

Desalination is commonly adopted nowadays to overcome the freshwater scarcity in some areas of world if brackish water or salt available. Different kinds technologies have been proposed last century. In this paper, state mainstream solutions reported, showing current commercial like reverse osmosis (RO), Multi-Stages Flash desalination (MSF) and Multi-Effect Distillation (MED), new frontiers re...

This paper investigates the performances analysis of PV-RO desalination system under uniform and non-uniform irradiance conditions. The main objective is application Extremum Seeking Control (ESC) to GPV side in order overcome generated power water quantity losses improve performance whole system. technical design developed based on an existing RO unit beside that real climatic data taken from ...

In this study, molecular dynamics simulation is used to investigate the effects of water-based substitutional defects in zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIF)-8 membranes on their reverse osmosis (RO) desalination performance. ZIF-8 unit cells containing up three defect sites are construct membranes. These can either be Zn or linker defects. The RO performance assessed terms water flux and ion ...

Abstract In this paper, two osmotic desalination systems, namely, plug reverse osmosis (RO) and recirculation (RRO) systems integrated with solar organic Rankine cycle (ORC), have been presented. These are modeled optimized from energy, exergy, economic, environmental perspectives. The objective functions the concentration disposal index (CDI) unit cost of product (fresh water) (UPC). results s...

Minimal liquid discharge (MLD) in greenhouses minimizes the volume of discharged wastewater, thereby increasing effluent that may be reused. Sodium accumulation wastewater is often considered main bottleneck to achieving 100% reuse. Consequently, have begun adopting reverse osmosis (RO), most commonly used desalination technology for treatment. RO removes ions from indiscriminately, including m...