Economic performance of membrane distillation configurations in optimal solar thermal desalination systems

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• battery 10%
• cost 33%
• decision 13%
• desalination 91%
• distillation 89%
• economic system 12%
• economics 49%
• energy 15%
• energy balance 10%
• evaluation 5%
• gas 5%
• hot water 11%
• mass balance 9%
• membrane 58%
• particle 5%
• product 5%
• production cost 25%
• salinity 7%
• salt 7%
• simulation 4%
• viability 10%
• water 16%
• water salinity 11%

Engineering & Materials Science

• Costs 32%
• Desalination 100%
• Distillation 88%
• Economics 54%
• Energy balance 11%
• Gases 6%
• Hot Temperature 41%
• Membranes 72%
• Salt removal 16%
• Salts 9%
• Thermal energy 10%
• Vacuum 18%
• Water 34%
• Water tanks 13%

Chemical Compounds

• Cubic Space Group 8%
• Distillation 82%
• Energy 15%
• Energy Balance 14%
• Gas 5%
• Mass Balance 12%
• Salinity 25%
• Simulation 6%
• Vacuum 17%