APPLICATION OF SOLAR ENERGY IN DESALTING SEAWATER

摘要：

Several regions on the Earth are now in the grip of freshwater scarcity with less than 1000 cu.m. available per year per capita. To overcome this situation, desalting seawater and/or brackish water has become a necessity. In the AGCC countries, almost the entire supply of freshwater depends upon desalting seawater. However, desalination as currently practiced on large scale depends entirely on the combustion of fossil fuels which, in turn, results into pollution of air and affects the global climate adversely. Hence, sustainability of the desalination industry very much depends upon the application of renewable energy such as solar to minimize the environmental impact. This can be applied in several ways.

作者: Asghar Hussain Darwish Al Gobaisi Ali M El-Nashar

作者单位: International Centre for Water and Energy Systems (ICWES), ABU DHABI, U.A.E.

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2007世界太阳能大会(Proceedings of ISES Solar World Congress 2007)

会议地点: 北京

会议语种:英文

在线出版日期: 2007-09-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）