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Water Desalination And Purification Using Renewable Energy Technologies, Michael Louis Broggi

Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

Water is an essential element of life as well as an integral cornerstone of any civilizations economic development. Although taken for granted by most living in developed nations, access to clean drinking water still proves to be a daily struggle for more than 1.2 billion individuals around the globe. More than 10% of the global population consumes food grown using waste water on a daily basis. Desalination facilities are in operation around the globe but are extremely large consumers of energy. There are several options available today which can reduce this energy demand and bring the desalination process down to …