Most of the desalination technologies consume a huge quantity of energy resulting from petroleum products in the form of heat or electrical energy. Solar desalination is a promisingly sustainable freshwater production...Most of the desalination technologies consume a huge quantity of energy resulting from petroleum products in the form of heat or electrical energy. Solar desalination is a promisingly sustainable freshwater production technology. Solar desalination humidification dehumidification process showed the best approach as it is of the highest overall energy efficiency. In this review paper, a detailed study of the previous work is performed on solar humidification dehumidification desalination techniques experimentally and theoretically. Also in this review, different types of HDH systems were mentioned. The review showed that the humidification dehumidification desalination systems are suitable for decentralized demand. On the other hand, capacity of HDH units is not as large as conventional methods or small as solar stills. Finally, this study threw light on the scope of the parameters which have a considerable influence on increasing the freshwater output of the HDH systems as feed water flow rate, air flow rate, and design of the evaporator, condenser, and packing material. A brief economical study and a comparison of the costs per liter are performed for various humidification dehumidification desalination systems presented in this study.展开更多
One way to increase storage density is using a shingled magnetic recording(SMR)disk.We propose a novel use of SMR disks with RAID(redundant array of independent disks)arrays,specifically building upon and compared wit...One way to increase storage density is using a shingled magnetic recording(SMR)disk.We propose a novel use of SMR disks with RAID(redundant array of independent disks)arrays,specifically building upon and compared with a basic RAID 4 arrangement.The proposed scheme(called RAID 4SMR)has the potential to improve the performance of a traditional RAID 4 array with SMR disks.Our evaluation shows that compared with the standard RAID 4,when using update in-place in RAID arrays,RAID 4SMR with garbage collection not just can allow the adoption of SMR disks with a reduced performance penalty,but offers a performance improvement of up to 56%.展开更多
文摘Most of the desalination technologies consume a huge quantity of energy resulting from petroleum products in the form of heat or electrical energy. Solar desalination is a promisingly sustainable freshwater production technology. Solar desalination humidification dehumidification process showed the best approach as it is of the highest overall energy efficiency. In this review paper, a detailed study of the previous work is performed on solar humidification dehumidification desalination techniques experimentally and theoretically. Also in this review, different types of HDH systems were mentioned. The review showed that the humidification dehumidification desalination systems are suitable for decentralized demand. On the other hand, capacity of HDH units is not as large as conventional methods or small as solar stills. Finally, this study threw light on the scope of the parameters which have a considerable influence on increasing the freshwater output of the HDH systems as feed water flow rate, air flow rate, and design of the evaporator, condenser, and packing material. A brief economical study and a comparison of the costs per liter are performed for various humidification dehumidification desalination systems presented in this study.
文摘One way to increase storage density is using a shingled magnetic recording(SMR)disk.We propose a novel use of SMR disks with RAID(redundant array of independent disks)arrays,specifically building upon and compared with a basic RAID 4 arrangement.The proposed scheme(called RAID 4SMR)has the potential to improve the performance of a traditional RAID 4 array with SMR disks.Our evaluation shows that compared with the standard RAID 4,when using update in-place in RAID arrays,RAID 4SMR with garbage collection not just can allow the adoption of SMR disks with a reduced performance penalty,but offers a performance improvement of up to 56%.