Economic evaluation of stand-alone solar powered membrane distillation systems

Desalination

Volumn 299, Issue , 2012, Pages 55-62

  Saffarini, Rasha B ^a   Summers, Edward K ^b   Arafat, Hassan A ^a   Lienhard V, John H ^b  

^a KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Air gap membrane distillation; Economic evaluation; Membrane distillation; Solar desalination

Indexed keywords

AIR GAP MEMBRANE DISTILLATION; AIR-GAPS; DESIGN AND OPERATIONS; DIRECT CONTACT; ECONOMIC EVALUATIONS; FEED CHANNEL; FEED FLOW RATE; FEED INLET TEMPERATURE; MEMBRANE DISTILLATION; PARAMETRIC STUDY; SOLAR DESALINATION; SOLAR-POWERED MEMBRANE DISTILLATIONS; WATER COSTS; WATER PRODUCTION COST;

DESALINATION; DISTILLATION EQUIPMENT; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; WATER FILTRATION;

COSTS;

DESALINATION; DISTILLATION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; MEMBRANE; SOLAR POWER;

EID: 84862986748     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2012.05.017     Document Type: Article

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