Ambient energy for low-cost water desalination

On the thermo-economic optimisation of multistage flash evaporation desalination plants

“…Optimum number of stages, optimum effectiveness values for condensers and brine heater, optimum heat transfer areas of condensers and brine heater, and operating temperatures can be calculated easily in a few minutes with the help of practical formulae. A thorough search of the present literature showed that there were several studies about the fin optimisation about the desalination (El-Dessouky et al, 1998;Ettouney et al, 2000;Mussati et al, 2001;Bourouis et al, 1998;Müller-Holst et al, 1999;Al-Sofi et al, 2000;Jernqvist et al, 2001;Uche et al 2001;Manolakos et al, 2001;Ali, 2002;El-Nashar, 1998;Al-Bahri et al, 2001;Caruso and Naviglio, 2001;Garcia-Rodrigues et al, 2001;Kriesi, 1981;Miyatake et al, 2001;Virk et al, 2001;El Geriani et al, 1998;Spiegler et al, 2001;Al-Wazzan and Al-Modaf, 2001;Sagie et al, 2001;Garcia-Rodriguez and Gomez-Camacho, 2001a;Garcia-Rodriguez and Gomez-Camacho, 2001b;El-Nashar, 1994;Müller-Holst et al, 1998;Abufayed, 2001;Georgopolou et al, 2001;Abdel-Jawad et al, 2001;Laborde et al, 2001;Bick and Oron, 2000;Bacha et al, 2000;Sommariva et al, 1999). All of these studies are not directly related to the present work.…”

Mathematical modeling and environmental analysis of heat pumps integrated in aprocess to treat spent pickling liquors

“…Direct contact evaporative crystallization with installation of heat pump can be used as a prospective methods of sea water demineralization (Virk et al, 2001) or in particular to produce salts from the Dead Sea brine (Al-Harahsheh and Al-Itawi, 2005). Integration of evaporative crystallization with osmosis system and heat pumps were studied by Loganathan et al (2015).…”

Analysis of Solar Still Combined with Heat Pump

“…The extra cost of the HP is amortized by the increased production of distilled water. In remote areas, the power consumption of the HP compressor can be by photovoltaic modules [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41].…”