Advances in Sustainable Humidification-Dehumidification Thermal Desalination Systems

Majid Amidpour is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Toosi University of Technology, Iran, Director of the Iranian Fuel Cell Society and Visiting Professor, Energy Department, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. Amidpour is interested in developing fossil and renewable integration systems using cogeneration approaches. Mohsen Salimi is an Assistant Professor in the Renewable Energy Research Department at the Niroo Research Institute in Iran. He has been publishing with Prof. Amidpour on thermal engineering and desalination techniques since 2015. He Weifing is an Associate Professor at the College of Energy and Power Engineering in Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in China. He has published more than 70 articles, book chapters, and conference papers. He has been working on HDH desalination since 2015, during which time he has authored/co-authored 30 publications in the area.

1. Introduction: the need for low-grade heat desalination systems 2. Small scale desalination systems Part I: 4E Analysis 3. Introducing the humidification-dehumidification desalination system, with thermodynamic analysis of its cycle 4. Investigating the exegetic, economic, and environmental aspects of an HDH desalination unit 5. Evaluating optimization methods for an HDH desalination unit 6. Examining a multi-stage HDH desalination system Part II: Process Integration 7. Fundamentals of hybrid HDH desalination systems 8. Integrating HDH desalination with renewable energy sources 9. Integrating HDH desalination with agricultural greenhouses 10. Integrating HDH desalination with power generation cycles 11. Integrating HDH desalination with refrigeration cycles 12. Integrating HDH desalination with other desalination plants 13. Evaluating optimization methods for hybrid HDH desalination systems Part III: Materials 14. Evaluating different packing materials for an HDH desalination unit