Towards less expensive fresh water from the sea

Despite the fact that the world's need for fresh water is becoming more urgent, the ability to desalinate economically on a large scale still remains a goal rather than a reality. The tremendous increase of fuel price since 1973 and also the problems of pollution had shifted the economical bala...

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Published inDesalination Vol. 93; no. 1; pp. 397 - 408
Main Author Morsy, M.G.
Format Journal Article Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier B.V 1993
Subjects
Desalination
Economics
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Seawater
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Summary:Despite the fact that the world's need for fresh water is becoming more urgent, the ability to desalinate economically on a large scale still remains a goal rather than a reality. The tremendous increase of fuel price since 1973 and also the problems of pollution had shifted the economical balance towards the systems of less energy consumption at more capital investment and leave little hope for conventional distillation systems to compete towards less priced water production. In this paper a distillation system is proposed which could lead to a breakthrough towards significant reduction in the cost of fresh water production from the sea.
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ISSN:0011-9164
1873-4464
DOI:10.1016/0011-9164(93)80117-6