Reverse osmosis desalination driven by low temperature supercritical organic rankine cycle

Applied Energy

Volumn 102, Issue , 2013, Pages 1071-1080

  Li, Chennan ^a   Besarati, Saeb ^a   Goswami, Yogi ^a   Stefanakos, Elias ^a   Chen, Huijuan ^a  

^a University of South Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Desalination; Low grade heat; Organic rankine cycle (ORC); Reverse osmosis (RO); Supercritical organic rankine cycle (SORC)

Indexed keywords

DESALINATION; RANKINE CYCLE; REVERSE OSMOSIS; THERMAL ENERGY; WASTE HEAT; WATER FILTRATION;

CRITICAL PRESSURES; HEAT SOURCES; LOW TEMPERATURES; LOW-GRADE HEATS; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; ORGANIC RANKINE CYCLES; REVERSE OSMOSIS DESALINATION; SEAWATER REVERSE OSMOSIS; SEAWATER REVERSE OSMOSIS SYSTEMS; SOLAR THERMAL; SUPERCRITICAL; WORKING FLUID;

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY;

DESALINATION; LOW TEMPERATURE; OSMOSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RECIRCULATING SYSTEM; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMAL POLLUTION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84870752275     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2012.06.028     Document Type: Article

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