Technical Review and Evaluation of the Economics of Water Desalination: Current and Future Challenges for Better Water Supply Sustainability
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Capacitive deionization is highly efficient compared to traditional desalination methods such as reverse osmosis.
“making it highly efficient compared to traditional desalination methods such as reverse osmosis [23,25,26].”
From Electrochemical Direct Lithium Extraction: A Review of Electrodialysis and Capacitive Deionization Technologies (2025) · cites this paper as [25]
Capacitive deionization achieves an energy consumption of less than 0.5-2.5 kWh/m3 when treating water with total dissolved solids concentrations below 2000 mg/L.
“Specifically, CDI achieves an energy consumption of less than 0.5-2.5 kWh/m 3 when treating water with TDS concentrations below 2000 mg/L”
From Electrochemical Direct Lithium Extraction: A Review of Electrodialysis and Capacitive Deionization Technologies (2025) · cites this paper as [25]
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“Specifically, CDI achieves an energy consumption of less than 0.5–2.5 kWh/m 3 when treating water with TDS concentrations below 2000 mg/L, making it highly efficient compared to traditional desalination methods such as reverse osmosis [23,25,26].”
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- Authors
- Ghaffour, N., Missimer, T. M., & Amy, G. L.
- Affiliations
- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (SA)
- Corresponding author
- Ghaffour, Noreddine
- Venue
- Desalination
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2013-01
- Volume
- 309
- Pages
- 197-207
- ISSN
- 0011-9164 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1993871668
- Cited by
- 1,603
- References
- 43
- Citations by year
- 2026: 131 · 2025: 137 · 2024: 118 · 2023: 115 · 2022: 123 · 2021: 152 · 2020: 164 · 2019: 161 · 2018: 144 · 2017: 124 · 2016: 91 · 2015: 67 · 2014: 55 · 2013: 19
- FWCI
- 40.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Desalination (publishedVersion)
- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Repository (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Water Science and Technology › Membrane Separation Technologies
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Membrane-based Ion Separation Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Waste Management and Disposal › Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
- Keywords
- desalination cost, seawater desalination, reverse osmosis, cost estimation methodology, techno-economic analysis, sustainable water supply, hybrid desalination, adsorption desalination
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