The paper examines design and operating data of current concentrated solar power (CSP) 11 solar tower (ST) plants. The study includes CSP with or without boost by combustion of natural gas 12 (NG), and with or without thermal energy storage (TES). The latest, actual specific costs per 13 installed capacity are very high, 6085 $/kW for Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS) 14 with no ...

Solar energy is an abundant clean and renewable source that has found wide uses in many energy-intensive applications. It normally transformed into other forms for certain applications, light-to-heat conversion one of the most common efficient ways to utilize solar power. Previous reviews mostly focus on solar-driven evaporation desalination, but few mention applications which photothermal mate...

Environmental issues related to desalination are a major factor in the design and implementation of desalination technologies. An acceptable desalination plant is expected to meet environmental regulations; be cost-effective in terms of construction, operation and management, as well as the costs associated with monitoring and permit fees. Some major environmental concerns include issues relate...

Solar desalination systems are a promising solution to the water scarcity problem since majority of earth’s resources salty. With increasing focus on research, many innovative methods being developed extract salts from saline water. Energy consumption is significant concern in desalination, and renewable energy, particularly solar considered viable alternative fossil fuel energy. In this review...

Abstract Solar-driven interfacial desalination has been emerged as a promising water treatment technology to generate drinkable out of seawater. The accumulated salt crystals generated from seawater, however, have adverse effects on solar-driven evaporation. In this work, we prepared salt-rejecting reduced graphene oxide (rGO) foam by depositing rGO particles hydrophilic melamine for solar desa...

A large number of resources are dedicated to seawater desalination and will only grow as world-wide water scarcity increases. In arid areas with high temperature and salinity seawater, thermal desalination and power plants (dual-purpose/co-generation plants) are often employed for the production of power and water. In other areas, reverse osmosis is commonly employed. However, both technologies...

Bottom-up design of 3D evaporator with high water evaporation rate shows excellent salt-rejection ability for effective and perpetual solar desalination system.