In the light of increased water usage and depleting natural water supplies, the world is facing an impending water shortage. To combat this, many countries have turned to desalination to derive usable water from the sea. In this report, we have researched the current desalination technologies available in order to provide a comparative analysis of different methods of solar desalination and other methods of conventional desalination for the benefit of those who are undecided or ignorant to all viable options. From our research, we have concluded that although solar desalination is not a viable option at the present, further research in efficiency and longevity of solar panels will make solar assisted desalination the most economically advantageous of methods.

Creator

• Taillefer, Zachary
• Stock, Ryan
• Scalzi, Anthony
• Tremblay, Andrew

Contributors

• Spanagel, David I.

Subject

• Power the World

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Language

• English

Identifier

• GPS_2007_POWER_Solar_Desalination

Year

• 2007

Date created

• 2007-01-01

Resource type

• Poster

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• Creative Commons BY-NC Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International