Hybrid renewable energy/hybrid desalination potentials for remote areas: selected cases studied in Egypt

For many socio-economic and demographic issues, majority of the Egyptian population live near the Nile River for thousands of years. Shortage of freshwater resources at remote and rural areas is limiting population settlement and development. Therefore, it is necessary to find alternative solutions...

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Published in:RSC advances 2021-04, Vol.11 (22), p.1321-13219
Main Authors: El-Hady Kashyout, Abd, Hassan, Amany, Hassan, Gasser, El-Banna Fath, Hassan, El-Wahab Kassem, Abd, Elshimy, Hisham, RanjanVepa, Shaheed, Mohammad H
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Chemistry
Desalination
Distillation
Distilled water
Fossil fuels
Fresh water
Freshwater resources
Hybrid systems
Membranes
Nanomaterials
Osmosis
Remote regions
Renewable energy
Renewable resources
Reverse osmosis
Rural areas
Saline water
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Summary:For many socio-economic and demographic issues, majority of the Egyptian population live near the Nile River for thousands of years. Shortage of freshwater resources at remote and rural areas is limiting population settlement and development. Therefore, it is necessary to find alternative solutions including saline water desalination processes to assist obtaining fresh water for domestic and industrial purposes in these remote areas. The energy needed for the desalination process represents another challenge due to the available fossil fuel limitation, increasing prices and their negative impacts on the environment. These challenges may be tackled by applying hybrid renewable energy (RE) resources such as solar and wind energies as the driving power for the desalination technologies. Many studies are conducted in Egypt, Middle East region and worldwide investigating the possibilities of different desalination systems driven by RE. This article presents a recent review of the global desalination processes with a focus on membrane desalination systems such as reverse osmosis (RO), membrane distillation (MD), hybrid desalination technologies and processes as well as advanced plasmonic nanomaterials for water distillation derived by RE suitable for remote and isolated areas. Some recent activities for coupling desalination systems with hybrid RE carried-out by the co-authors will be highlighted. For many socio-economic and demographic issues, majority of the Egyptian population live near the Nile River for thousands of years.
ISSN:2046-2069
2046-2069
DOI:10.1039/d1ra00989c