Desalination

Producing freshwater by removing salt

Technologies include Seawater reverse osmosis, multistage flash (MSF) and multieffect distillation (MED)

Wikipedia page: Desalination

In the Atlas:

• Renewable energy powered desalination

Publications:

• Desalination Costs Using Renewable Energy Technologies (2018)
  • Discusses cost of desalination powered by 100% renewable energy power plants
  • Estimates global desalination demand by 2030, based solely on water stress and water demand
• Learning Curve for Seawater Reverse Osmosis Desalination Plants: Capital Cost Trend of the Past, Present, and Future (2017)
  • Analyses past trends of the Seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination capital expenditures (capex) as the historic global cumulative online SWRO capacity increases, based on the learning curve concept
• Local cost of seawater RO desalination based on solar PV and wind energy: A global estimate (2016)
  • Provides a global estimate of the water production cost for the 2030 desalination demand with renewable electricity generation costs for 2030 for an optimised local system configuration

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