**Acknowledgements**

Authors would like to thank Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 8ST, United Kingdom POC grant for Solar Water project awarded to Dr. Muhammad Wakil Shahzad, and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia for the research support of this research. This work was also supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC, UK) grant-EP/N007921.

**Appendix 1: CCGT plant schematic and summary of state points**

*Performance Evaluation of Desalination Technologies at Common Energy Platform DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.104867*


Thermodynamic states of air and steam of CCGT cycle under investigation.
