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Fresh water deficits have reached most of the world population in recent years, and factors like climate change, population growth and Covid pandemic have increased this problem. Over the nineteenth century, several studies have developed operative methods for seawater desalination, which resulted in the incorporation of desalination plants all around the world, but the most used methods are the following three: reverse osmosis, multi-stage distillation and multi-effect evaporation. The studies have explored promising processes, some of them are very auspicious from the energy analysis, but not many of them have surpassed the pilot plant stage. One of the simplest and oldest methods include the use of solar stills to obtain fresh water and the improvements have come about with the combination of solar stills and mechanisms to facilitate water evaporation, heat exchange, water steam cooling and condensation collecting. This work presents the results of an active solar still seawater desalination process research and compares it with the most commonly used methods.
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Freire, H.A.S., Ones, O.P., Muñoz, S.R. (2022). Combined Methods for Seawater Desalination. Solar Active Desalination Process. In: Rocha, Á., López-López, P.C., Salgado-Guerrero, J.P. (eds) Communication, Smart Technologies and Innovation for Society . Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 252. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4126-8_8
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