Renewable Energy Applications for Freshwater Production
eBook - ePub

Renewable Energy Applications for Freshwater Production

  1. 286 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Renewable Energy Applications for Freshwater Production

About this book

Worldwide, many regions have a great potential to cover part of their pressing water needs by renewable energy powered water treatment processes using either thermal or membrane based technologies. Not only arid and semiarid regions are increasingly suffering from water shortage but also many other regions face a limitation of freshwater resources either by increasing contamination of surface water bodies or groundwater resources unsuitable for drinking and irrigation purposes either due to their high grade of mineralization or their contents of toxic components. In many areas without centralized water supply, treatment techniques using locally available renewable energy resources such as wind, solar and geothermal can provide an economical, social and environmentally sustainable option for clean water production from seawater and from highly mineralized or otherwise unsuitable ground- and surface water. This book provides an overview on possible cost-efficient techniques and application opportunities for different scales and shows why the implementation of these technologies faces numerous technological, economic and policy barriers and provides suggestions how they can be overcome. It serves as a synoptic compendium of the fundamentals of freshwater production using renewable energies, applicable to all types of water, ranging from brackish to marine water and also including industrial and communal residual water. The book is aimed at professionals, academics and decision makers worldwide, working in the areas of water resources, water supply,land planning, energy planning, greenhouse gases emission mitigation and rural development.

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Yes, you can access Renewable Energy Applications for Freshwater Production by Jochen Bundschuh,Jan Hoinkis in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Technology & Engineering & Environmental Management. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Sustainable Energy Developments
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. About the book series
  7. Editorial board
  8. Table of contents
  9. About the Contributors
  10. Foreword
  11. Preface
  12. Editors’ Preface
  13. About the editors
  14. Acknowledgements
  15. CHAPTER 1: Addressing freshwater shortage with renewable energies
  16. CHAPTER 2: Overview of renewable energy technologies for freshwater production
  17. CHAPTER 3: Use of passive solar thermal energy for freshwater production
  18. CHAPTER 4: Solar desalination with humidification-dehumidification process: design and analysis
  19. CHAPTER 5: Solar PV powered RO systems
  20. CHAPTER 6: Wind energy powered technologies for freshwater production: fundamentals and case studies
  21. CHAPTER 7: Geothermal water treatment - preliminary experiences from Poland with a global overview of membrane and hybrid desalination technologies
  22. CHAPTER 8: Solar disinfection as low-cost technologies for clean water production
  23. Sustainable Energy Developments