Can Large-Scale Offshore Membrane Desalination Cost-Effectively and Ecologically Address Water Scarcity in the Middle East?

The Middle East will face tremendous water scarcity by 2050, which can only be mitigated by large-scale reverse osmosis seawater desalination. However, the coastal land in the region is rare and costly, so outsourcing the desalination facility to artificial islands could become a realistic scenario....

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Main Authors: Daniel Janowitz, Sophie Groche, Süleyman Yüce, Thomas Melin, Thomas Wintgens
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-03-01
Series:Membranes
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0375/12/3/323