Progress review of solar desalination

The MEDESOL project has released its public deliverable "Critical assessment of the state-of-the-art and bibliographic review on membrane distillation technology, solar collector technology and low-fouling heat transfer modified surfaces". The document's purpose is to address the project's relevant aspects of conventional desalination technologies, costs of reverse osmosis plants connected to the grid, renewable energy powered desalination, solar resources and databases available for EU and Mexico, solar collector technology, membrane distillation technology, thermal storage systems for storing solar heat and state-of-the art of low-fouling heat transfer surfaces.