PUBLICATIONS
Solar Water Desalination
- Atia A. and Fthenakis V., U.S._Israel Integrated Energy and Desalination Design Challenge
- Fthenakis V., Solar Energy for Clean and Affordable Water Desalination, Proceedings 44th IEEEPVSC, Washington DC, June 2017.
- Fthenakis V., Atia A., Bkayrat R., Ng Kim C., Alghasham T., Khalid A., Sgouridis S., Prospects in Solar Water Desalination: Towards Affordable H2O without CO2, Proceedings 31st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Munich, June 2016.
- Fthenakis V., Atia A., Morin O., Bkayrat R., and Sinha P., New Prospects for PV Powered Water Desalination Plants: A case study in Saudi Arabia, Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, 4, 543–550, 2016.
- Fthenakis V. Solar Desalination Prospects in the Gulf Council Countries, draft Report, prepared for the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), December 2015.
- Fthenakis V., Papadakis G. et al., Autonomous PV-RO desalination systems, Low Carbon Desalination, Status and R&D&D Needs, MIT Workshop in association with the Global Clean Water Desalination Alliance, Preliminary Report Nov. 2016.
- Papadakis G., Fthenakis V. et al., Hybrid Desalination Units Powered by Renewable Energy Systems,, Low Carbon Desalination, Status and R&D&D Needs, MIT Workshop in association with the Global Clean Water Desalination Alliance, Preliminary Report Nov. 2016.
- R. Ferroukhi, A. Khalid, D. Hawila, D. Nagpal, L. El-Katiri, V. Fthenakis and A. Al-Fara, Renewable Energy Market Analysis: The GCC Region, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), Abu Dhabi, 2016.
- Fthenakis V., Atia A., Perez M., Florenzano A., Grageda M., Ushak S., and Palma R., Prospects for Photovoltaics in Sunny and Arid Regions: A Solar Grand Plan for Chile, Part I-Investigation of PV and Wind Penetration, Proceedings 40th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Denver, CO, pp. 1424-1429, 2014.
- Atia A., Fthenakis V., and Bkayrat R., Techno-economic Evaluation of Stand-Alone PV-Powered Seawater desalination Plants in Saudi Arabia, pp. 4075-4080, Proceedings 29th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Amsterdam, Sept. 2014.