Opportunities and challenges of electrochemical water treatment integrated with renewable energy at the water-energy nexus

Global challenges of reliable energy and clean water presently require concerted approaches in water-energy nexus. Electrochemical methods for water treatment have gathered attraction because of several advantages, such as scalable, modular operations, promising distributed systems, and high energy efficiency. These advantages of electrochemical methods over other water treatment systems make possible to use renewable energy such as photovoltaic...