Lifetime optimisation of integrated thermally and electrically driven solar desalination plants

Abstract We compare the performance of photovoltaic (PV), flat-plate and evacuated-tube solar-thermal (ST), and hybrid photovoltaic-thermal (PV-T) collectors to meet the energy demands of multi-effect distillation (MED) desalination plants across four locations. We consider three scales: 1700 m3day−...

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Published in:	npj Clean Water
Main Authors:	Benedict Winchester, Gan Huang, Hamish Beath, Philip Sandwell, Jiajun Cen, Jenny Nelson, Christos N. Markides
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Nature Portfolio 2024-07-01
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41545-024-00335-4