desalination
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Desalination is a process that removes salt from seawater to produce fresh drinking water. It matters because it provides a potential source of fresh water in coastal regions where drinking water is scarce.
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- History
- Applications
- Technologies
- Distillation
- Solar distillation
- Natural evaporation
- Vacuum distillation
- Multi-stage flash distillation
- Multiple-effect distillation
- Vapor-compression distillation
- Membrane distillation
- Osmosis
- Reverse osmosis
- Forward osmosis
- Freeze–thaw
- Electrodialysis
- Microbial desalination
- Wave-powered desalination
- Wind-powered desalination
- Desalination by thermophoresis
- Design aspects
- Energy consumption
- Cogeneration
- Alternatives to desalination
- Costs
- Environmental concerns
- Intake
- Outflow
- Energy use
- Other issues
- Health aspects
- Iodine deficiency
- Experimental techniques
- Waste heat
- Low-temperature thermal
- Thermoionic process
- Evaporation and condensation for crops
- Ion concentration polarisation
- Other approaches
- Forward osmosis
- Hydrogel based desalination
- Small-scale solar
- Energy-based desalination
- Solar-powered desalination
- Systems powered by wind and hybrid
- Application of geothermal and waste heat treatment
- Technological innovations
- Economic and environmental implications
- Applications in social and regional contexts
- Future outlook
- Passarell
- Geothermal
- Nanotechnology
- Biomimesis
- Electrochemical
- Electrokinetic shocks
- Temperature swing solvent extraction
- Wave energy
- Use around the world
- In nature
- Society and culture
- See also
- References
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Desalination is the artificial process by which salt water (generally sea water) is converted to fresh water. More generally, desalination is the removal of salts and minerals from a substance. It is possible to desalinate saltwater, especially sea water, to produce water for human consumption or irrigation, producing brine as a by-product.