3707 Waste Heat for Producing Fresh Water

Sunday, February 20, 2011: 10:30 AM
206 (Washington Convention Center )
David Scott , Abu Dhabi Basic Industries Corp., Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Approximately 60% of all energy consumed in the world ends up as unused waste heat. However, this waste heat can captured with heat harvesting devices and can be used for desalination and water treatment to create abundant supplies of fresh drinking water. This talk will discuss the applications of waste heat for water production in the Middle East, with some comments about how the use of waste heat might transfer over to other applications or other parts of the world.