Looking Beyond Energy Efficiency: An Applied Review of Water Desalination Technologies and an Introduction to Capillary-Driven Desalination

Most notable emerging water desalination technologies and related publications, as examined by the authors, investigate opportunities to increase energy efficiency of the process. In this paper, the authors reason that improving energy efficiency is only one route to produce more cost-effective pota...

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Main Authors: Seyedsaeid Ahmadvand, Behrooz Abbasi, Babak Azarfar, Mohammed Elhashimi, Xiang Zhang, Bahman Abbasi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-04-01
Series:Water
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/11/4/696