The role of nuclear desalination in meeting the potable water needs in water scarce areas in the next decades*
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2017, EnergyCitation Excerpt :Seawater desalination is expected to play an important role in the global economic, social development and ecological environment specifically for the regions having scary water resources [1–4].
Capillary-driven low grade heat desalination
2017, DesalinationCitation Excerpt :Utilizing waste heat can conserve limited energy resources, alleviate adverse environmental impacts, and minimize overall costs. It is very exciting that desalination can become a great approach of recycling the waste heat to increase the energy efficiency by fully utilizing the huge amount of low-grade thermal resources [30,31]. The proposed novel capillary-driven desalination design recycles the wasted thermal energy in an economic and environmentally friendly way.
Development and techno-economic analysis of small modular nuclear reactor and desalination system across Middle East and North Africa region
2017, DesalinationCitation Excerpt :Shaorong and Zhang (2010) investigated the coupling of NHR with low-temperature MED + RO and the coupling of NHR with low-temperature MED/VC + MED [44]. Misra and Kupitz [45], and Misra [46] investigated the role of nuclear desalination for usage of potable water needs in water scary areas. The research also reported a series of nuclear reactors coupled to various desalination processes.
A review on the coupling of cooling, desalination and solar photovoltaic systems
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Alternatives of seawater desalination using nuclear power
2012, Nuclear Engineering and DesignCitation Excerpt :This cogeneration option has already been pursued by Japan, Kazakhstan, India, Pakistan, and there are several other countries that are performing feasibility studies for future use (Misra and Kupitz, 2004; Kavvadias and Khamis, 2010). Basically, there are three single processes for nuclear desalination that have been demonstrated for producing potable water, these are multi-effect distillation (MED), multi-stage flash distillation (MSF) and reverse osmosis (RO) (Misra and Kupitz, 2004; Kavvadias and Khamis, 2010; Khan, 1986; Design Concepts of Nuclear Desalination Plants, 2002), each one of these processes produce potable water with greater or less quality (dissolved solid concentration ppm) respectively. Each one of these processes requires different reactor coupling, for the reverse osmosis, this one requires basically electricity and the process can be improved by using the reactor cooling seawater from the condenser as water input for the desalination plant.
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Presented at the EuroMed 2004 conference on Desalination Strategies in South Mediterranean Countries: Cooperation between Mediterranean Countries of Europe and the Southern Rim of the Mediterranean. Sponsored by the European Desalination Society and Office National de l'Eau Potable, Marrakech, Morocco, 30 May–2 June 2004.