Application of solar energy to remove salt from seawater.

Abstract

The use of modern sweetener technologies includes a variety of thermal, membrane and solar systems in which sea saline water is converted into fresh and potable water through thermal processes or membrane filtration processes that is a solution along with other water and wastewater purification processes in responding to reduction of water resources and the use of alternative sources has been developed to provide water for the needs of people, industry and agriculture. In this paper, it has been tried to review the general mechanism of sweetening seawater using solar energy, especially hybrid membrane and osmotic solar energy techniques and thermodynamic distillation of seawater with solar energy.