Desalination Sustainability: A Technical, Socioeconomic, and Environmental Approach

Desalination Sustainability: A Technical, Socioeconomic, and Environmental Approach presents a technical, socioeconomical, and environmental approach that guides researchers and technology developers on how to quantify the energy efficiency of a proposed desalination process using thermodynamics-based tools. The book offers the technical reader an understanding of the issues related to desalination sustainability. For example, technology users, such as public utility managers will gain the ability and tools to assess whether or not desalination is a good choice for a city or country. Readers will learn new insights on a clear and practical methodology on how to probe the economic feasibility of desalination using simple and effective tools, such as levelized cost of water (LCOW) calculation. Decision-makers will find this book to be a valuable resource for the preliminary assessment of whether renewable-powered desalination is a good choice for their particular setting. Presents the issues related to desalination sustainabilityGuides researchers and technology developers on how to quantify the energy efficiency of a proposed desalination process using thermodynamics-based toolsOutlines a clear and practical methodology on how to probe the economic feasibility of desalination using simple and effective tools Provides a roadmap for decision-makers on the applicability of a desalination process at a particular setting INDICE: 1. Introduction: What is sustainable desalination?2. Membrane-based desalination technology for energy efficiency and cost reduction3. Advanced membrane based desalination systems for water and minerals extraction from the sea4. Nanoparticle incorporation into desalination and water treatment membranes - potential advantages and challenges5. Thermodynamics, Exergy, and Energy Efficiency in Desalination Systems6. Harmful algal blooms: threats to sustainable desalination and early warning solutions7. Desalination Adoption and Challenges in the United States8. Prospects and State-of-the-Art of Carbon Nanotube Membranes in Desalination Processes9. Autonomous solar-powered desalination systems for remote communities10. Levelized water cost assessment in thermal and photovoltaic solar-driven desalination plants11. Success measures for desalination spin out technologies and the current state of companies12. Brine discharge, modeling and management solutions: A short review

• ISBN: 978-0-12-809791-5
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 442
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2017
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés