Author

Year

Ref.

Study category

System description

Productivity

Cost per unit

Kabeel et al.

(2013)

[57]

Theoretical

HDH-FE

96 l·day⁻¹

0.0086 US$/l for hybrid

0.0097 US$/l for separate

Zubair et al.

(2017)

[58]

Theoretical

CAOW WH

16,430 - 19,445 kg/year

From 0.0032 US$/l to 0.0038 US$/l

Jamil et al.

(2018)

[47]

Theoretical

Hybrid HDH ROD

-

0.00013 US$/l

Kabeel et al.

(2015)

[37]

Experimental & Theoretical

Solar HDH

22 l/day

57.8 US$/m³

Deniz et al.

(2016)

[59]

Experimental & Theoretical

OACW A/WH Solar HDH

1.1173 l/h

98.1 US$/m³

Rostamzadeh et al.

(2018)

[60]

Theoretical

Heat pump

38.84 kg·h⁻¹

2217 - 7130 US$/m³

Y. Zhang et al.

(2019)

[61]

Theoretical

Heat pump

42.55 l·h⁻¹

41.2 US$/m³

W.F. He et al.

(2019)

[62]

Theoretical

Heat pump

71.56 l·h⁻¹

18 US$/m³

Y. Zhang et al.

(2018)

[63]

Experimental

Heat pump

22.26 kg·h⁻¹

51 US$/m³

Lawal et al.

(2020)

[50]

Experimental

Heat pump

287.8 l·day⁻¹

10.68 US$/m³

M. Faegh et al.

(2019)

[64]

Theoretical

Heat pump

287.8 l·day⁻¹

14 US$/m³

Okati et al.

(2018)

[65]

Theoretical

OAOW

264.8 l·day⁻¹

0.0276 US$/l

He et al.

(2018)

[66]

Theoretical

CAOW

84.6 kg·h⁻¹

6.2 - 13.41 US$/kg·h

Wu et al.

(2017)

[67]

Experimental & Theoretical

CAOW

0.182 m³·h⁻¹

0.0025 US$/l

Narayan et al.

(2013)

[68]

Experimental

CAOW

700 kg/day

-

El-Agouz et al.

(2014)

[69]

Experimental

-

9 kg·m⁻²

0.029 US$/l

Dayem et al.

(2014)

[70]

Experimental

-

9 kg/m² day

0.5 US$/l

Rajaseenivasan et al.

(2017)

[71]

Experimental

OAOW

6.1 kg·h⁻¹

0.0133 US$/kg

Elminshawy et al.

(2016)

[72]

Experimental & Theoretical

OAOW

104 kg·m⁻²

0.003 US$/l

Rahimi-Ahar et al.

(2018)

[73]

Theoretical

CAOW

2 - 2.2 kg·h⁻¹

0.002 - 0.041 US$/l

El-Agouz et al.

(2018)

[74]

Theoretical

OAOW A/W H

0.46 kg_w/kg_a

-

Zubair et al.

(2018)

[75]

Experimental & Theoretical

OAOW

OACW

-

4.10 - 6.55 US$/m³

0.79 - 2.25 US$/m³

He et al.

(2018)

[48]

Theoretical

CAOW

99.05 kg·h⁻¹

0.02 US$/kg

Tariq et al.

(2018)

[76]

Theoretical

OACW-WH

21 kg·day⁻¹

0.03 US$/l

Rahimi-Ahar et al.

(2018)

[77]

Experimental

CAOW A/W H

1.07 kg·h⁻¹·m⁻²

0.0041 US$/l

El-Agouz

(2010)

[78]

Experimental & Theoretical

OACW WH

8.22 kg·h⁻¹

0.115 US$/l

Behnam et al.

(2016)

[79]

Experimental

CACW WH

6.275 kg·day⁻¹·m⁻²

0.028 US$/l

Elminshawy et al.

(2015)

[80]

Experimental & Theoretical

OACW WH

30.3 kg·day⁻¹·m⁻²

0.035 US$/l

Zhani et al.

(2010)

[27]

Experimental

CAOW AH/WH

20 kg·day⁻¹

0.08 ?l

Ahmed et al.

(2017)

[81]

Experimental

OACW A/WH

15 kg·h⁻¹

0.01 US$/l

Rajaseenivasan et al.

(2017)

[82]

Experimental

OACW AH/WH

15.23 kg/day·m²

0.0257 US$/kg

Wang et al.

(2012)

[83]

Experimental

CAOW WH

0.873 kg/day·m²

0.0218 US$/kg

Xu et al.

(2019)

[84]

Theoretical

CACW WH

0.14 kg/h

8.59 US$/m³