Membrane fouling is one of major obstacles in the application of membrane technologies.
Accurately predicting or simulating membrane fouling behaviours is of great significance to …

The freshwater scarcity is causing a major challenge due to the growing global population.
The brackish water and seawater are the biggest sources of water on the planet. Therefore …

Growing water demands have led to rapidly increasing desalination installation capacity
worldwide. In an attempt to lower carbon footprint resulting from high-energy consuming …

The uncertainty associated with modeling and performance prediction of solar photovoltaic
systems could be easily and efficiently solved by artificial intelligence techniques. During the …

Membrane distillation (MD) is a promising separation technology that can help reducing the
worldwide water-energy stress in a sustainable way. MD uses low-grade thermal energy to …

Water desalination has become one of the viable solutions for water shortages in regions
with limited natural resources. In the last two decades, more attention has been paid to …

Membrane distillation (MD) is considered a promising technology that is expected to
compete with reverse osmosis (RO) for water desalination. The superiority of MD is mainly …

In this paper, artificial neural network (ANN) based Levenberg-Marquardt (LM), Bayesian
Regularization (BR) and Scaled Conjugate Gradient (SCG) algorithms are deployed in …

Utilizing various renewable energy resources (RERs) for powering desalination plants is an
encouraging choice, specifically in arid and remote areas where conventional resources are …

Pressure-swing distillation (PSD) is widely used as an efficient method for separating
pressure-sensitive azeotropic mixtures in industrial processes. Remarkably, PSD can …