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Productivity Improvements of Adsorption Desalination Systems

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Solar Desalination Technology

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Addressing the water energy cooling environment nexus in an integrated and proactive way is an insistent motivation for research, development, and innovation. This combination is highly valued as renewable energy is used to drive plants to produce electrical power, provide cooling or heating, and extract clean water. Such plants significantly reduce the greenhouse gases and air pollutant emissions generated by combustion of fossil fuels. Adsorption-based desalination (AD) system has been proposed to produce both fresh/potable water and cooling effect for rural and remote coastal communities. The system is powered by low-grade heat or solar energy. Desalination feature has been added to adsorption cooling system to distinguish it and improve its performance. However, the performance of this hybrid system is still relatively low comparing to the other cooling and desalination technologies. Accordingly, the AD systems are being evolved steadily over the past decades to enhance their performance. In this chapter, the working principle of the AD cycle is demonstrated, and the characteristics of the recommended working pairs are discussed. Productivity progress of different arrangements of AD plant in terms of specific daily water production (SDWP) is presented in chronological order. The effect of the operating conditions and the system cycle time on the system performance is shown. Predicting the technology performance is also exhibited. Until now, the cycle could produce a SDWP up to 25 kg/kg of adsorbent per day. Moreover, this work summarizes the improvement that has been achieved in the last decades and the trend of this technology in the near future.

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  1. Mechanical Power Engineering Dept, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt

    Ramy H. Mohammed

  2. Institute of Material Science, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

    Ahmed A. Askalany

  3. Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Industrial Education, Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt

    Ahmed A. Askalany

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    Om Prakash

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Mohammed, R.H., Askalany, A.A. (2019). Productivity Improvements of Adsorption Desalination Systems. In: Kumar, A., Prakash, O. (eds) Solar Desalination Technology. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6887-5_15

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