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RESEARCH PRODUCT
Seawater Desalination for Freshwater Production
Giorgio MicaleAndrea CipollinaLucio Rizzutisubject
Settore ING-IND/26 - Teoria Dello Sviluppo Dei Processi ChimiciResource (biology)Seawater desalinationbusiness.industryEnvironmental engineeringwater scarsity desalination technologies Renewable Energy couplingsDesalinationRenewable energyWater scarcityProduction (economics)Environmental scienceSeawaterEnvironmental impact assessmentbusinessdescription
In the last decades more and more countries have experienced water scarcity problems, thus pointing at alternative non-conventional sources of fresh water. Seawater desalination has proven to be a reliable and economically sustainable water resource since the second half of the 20th Century. A number of well proven technologies already exist, with advantages and disadvantages making each of them more suitable in specific sites. Moreover, quite recently, coupling the use of renewable energy to the production of fresh water from seawater results in novel technologies, able to minimise the environmental impact that desalination processes can create due to their intense energy consumptions.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-01-01 |