The correlation between water and energy is currently the focus of several investigations. In particular, desalination is a technological process characterized by high energy consumption

Thermoeconomic analysis, a combined application of thermodynamic and economic analyses, has emerged as an important tool to optimize the performance of desalination systems. Contrary to conventional economic analysis, it ...

The burgeoning world population requires intensified efforts to increase food production, especially in tropical and subtropical regions. The authors report below on a controlled-environment saltwater greenhouse with ...

Historically, water scarcity has been understood to result from unfavorable climatological and hydrological factors. From this perspective, infrastructural solutions that augment water supplies, such as desalination, are ...

Insufficient access to potable water is becoming one of the major threats to sustainable development around the globe. The implementation of water conservation policies and the use of mature and novel desalination ...

This paper aims to analyze dual-purpose systems focusing the total cost optimization; a superstructure is proposed to present cogeneration systems and desalination technologies alternatives for the synthesis process. The ...

This paper aims to analyze dual-purpose systems focusing the total cost optimization; a superstructure is proposed to present cogeneration systems and desalination technologies alternatives for the synthesis process. The ...

This paper proposes ail alternative configuration to conventional reverse osmosis (RO) desalination systems by incorporating the use of gravitational potential energy. The proposal suggests a model that can be viewed as ...