Desalination using renewable energy in Australia

D.G. Harrison, G.E. Ho and K. Mathew

Renewable Energy, 1996, vol. 8, issue 1, 509-513

Abstract: The history and performance of renewable energy driven desalination plants in Australia are reviewed. Included are the 3 500 m2 of solar stills built in South Australia in 1966, the two small scale photovoltaic reverse osmosis (RO) plants currently operating in Central Australia, a larger containerised photovoltaic RO plant from Western Australia, a Wind Powered RO Plant in Shark Bay, Western Australia, and two experimental Windmill powered RO plants designed at Murdoch University.

Keywords: Desalination; renewable energy; solar: wind (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1016/0960-1481(96)88909-9

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