Social, environmental, and economic consequences of integrating renewable energies in the electricity sector: a review

M Farghali, AI Osman, Z Chen, A Abdelhaleem… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
The global shift from a fossil fuel-based to an electrical-based society is commonly viewed
as an ecological improvement. However, the electrical power industry is a major source of …

Going beyond efficiency for solar evaporation

N Xu, J Li, C Finnerty, Y Song, L Zhou, B Zhu, P Wang… - Nature Water, 2023 - nature.com
Interfacial solar evaporation, which captures solar energy and localizes the generated heat
for evaporating water molecules, is regarded as an important emerging strategy for solar …

Harvesting blue energy based on salinity and temperature gradient: challenges, solutions, and opportunities

M Rastgar, K Moradi, C Burroughs, A Hemmati… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Greenhouse gas emissions associated with power generation from fossil fuel combustion
account for 25% of global emissions and, thus, contribute greatly to climate change …

An overview of water desalination systems integrated with renewable energy sources

ZM Ghazi, SWF Rizvi, WM Shahid, AM Abdulhameed… - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
Nowadays, the growing world population, climate change, pollution, rising consumer
demand, and resource exploitation have contributed to a freshwater shortage. Hence, water …

Solar-powered sustainable water production: state-of-the-art technologies for sunlight–energy–water nexus

Z Li, X Xu, X Sheng, P Lin, J Tang, L Pan, YV Kaneti… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Alternative water resources (seawater, brackish water, atmospheric water, sewage, etc.) can
be converted into clean freshwater via high-efficiency, energy-saving, and cost-effective …

[HTML][HTML] A critical review of comparative global historical energy consumption and future demand: The story told so far

T Ahmad, D Zhang - Energy Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
This review presents a critical combined energy analysis of demand in
developed/develo** countries, including the load requirements of the various business …

Emerging desalination technologies: Current status, challenges and future trends

FE Ahmed, A Khalil, N Hilal - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
Emerging technologies present many new possibilities for diversifying the desalination
industry, which is currently dominated by thermal desalination, and reverse osmosis. In this …

[HTML][HTML] State-of-the-art of renewable energy sources used in water desalination: Present and future prospects

J Bundschuh, M Kaczmarczyk, N Ghaffour… - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
The last decade has seen a worldwide increase in the use of alternative energy sources,
especially renewable energy (RE), including its application in desalination. In the past many …

The global status of desalination: An assessment of current desalination technologies, plants and capacity

J Eke, A Yusuf, A Giwa, A Sodiq - Desalination, 2020 - Elsevier
This work explores the existing desalination data of over 6 decades (from 1960s to year
2020) to provide an in-depth assessment, via statistical analysis, of the global spread of …

Water distillation tower: Experimental investigation, economic assessment, and performance prediction using optimized machine-learning model

AH Elsheikh, EMS El-Said, M Abd Elaziz, M Fujii… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Here we present a new compact design of a vertical water distillation tower based on solar
stills. The experimental setup consisted of a vertical tower with five water trays, supported by …