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SOLAR-DRIVEN DESICCANT SYSTEM FOR FRESH WATER GENERATION FROM AMBIENT AIR: A REVIEW
RÉSUMÉ
The rapid development of human beings and deficiency in natural water resources have caused scarcity of fresh water, which results in a serious problem of availability of fresh water that has to be solved. The desalination of saline water can be a solution for this problem, but it depends on the availability of saline water, and it also requires a large amount of energy. Generally, this energy is supplied by fossil fuel-based energy sources. The aforementioned reasons force us to find renewable energy-based alternative methods to provide fresh water. The ambient air contains huge amounts of water vapors, so fresh water can be generated by processing ambient air water vapors. In recent years, numerous researchers have aroused upsurge studies of fresh water generation from ambient air. In this review, water generation from ambient air technology is reviewed. Three different types of that technology have been proposed. One of those technologies is based on desiccant materials and solar energy. As solar energy and atmospheric air are available everywhere on earth in good amounts and at no cost, this combination gives us an opportunity to produce fresh water in an ecofriendly way. The review is extended to provide a widespread summary of the recent developments of such systems that use solar energy for water generation from ambient air. An introduction about categories, principle, efficiency calculation, and economic analysis of such systems is demonstrated. Finally, the current challenges and critical issues of such systems are outlined, aiming to provide direction and acceleration to the development of commercial products in the field of water generation from air.
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