Thermo-economic assessment of forward osmosis as pretreatment to boost the performance and sustainability of multi-effect distillation for seawater desalination
Bartolomé Ortega-Delgado, Patricia Palenzuela, Ali Altaee, Diego-César Alarcón-Padilla, Alaa H. Hawari, Guillermo Zaragoza
Topics & Concepts
ExergyDesalinationEnvironmental scienceEnvironmental engineeringProcess engineeringExergy efficiencyMultiple-effect distillationReverse osmosisCost of electricity by sourceDistillationWaste managementEngineeringElectricity generationChemistryThermodynamicsMembranePower (physics)Organic chemistryPhysicsBiochemistryMembrane Separation TechnologiesSolar-Powered Water Purification MethodsMembrane-based Ion Separation Techniques