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Water desalination using heat pumps

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  • Siqueiros, J.
  • Holland, F.A.

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The USA/Mexico border areas have very limited water resources with salinity a major problem. Experimental work on heat pump assisted water purification has been carried out in Mexico since 1981. Initially, electrically driven mechanical vapor compression heat pumps were used. These were subsequently replaced by absorption heat pumps with the objective of developing systems to operate on environmentally clean low grade heat energy. These thermally driven units can either be designed as small scale mobile units to be used in disaster areas or scaled up in size to produce potable water for cities at a cost competitive with reverse osmosis and electrodialysis technologies. Future work will concentrate on heat driven heat transformer or temperature amplifier systems since these are the most promising from an economic and environmental point of view.

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  • Siqueiros, J. & Holland, F.A., 2000. "Water desalination using heat pumps," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 25(8), pages 717-729.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:25:y:2000:i:8:p:717-729
    DOI: 10.1016/S0360-5442(00)00012-8
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    1. Amin, Zakaria Mohd & Hawlader, M.N.A., 2015. "Analysis of solar desalination system using heat pump," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 74(C), pages 116-123.
    2. Omar, Amr & Nashed, Amir & Li, Qiyuan & Leslie, Greg & Taylor, Robert A., 2020. "Pathways for integrated concentrated solar power - Desalination: A critical review," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 119(C).
    3. Li, Chennan & Goswami, Yogi & Stefanakos, Elias, 2013. "Solar assisted sea water desalination: A review," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 19(C), pages 136-163.
    4. Wu, Wei & Wang, Baolong & Shi, Wenxing & Li, Xianting, 2014. "Absorption heating technologies: A review and perspective," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 130(C), pages 51-71.
    5. Janghorban Esfahani, Iman & Kang, Yong Tae & Yoo, ChangKyoo, 2014. "A high efficient combined multi-effect evaporation–absorption heat pump and vapor-compression refrigeration part 1: Energy and economic modeling and analysis," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 75(C), pages 312-326.

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