**Author details**

Muhammad Wakil Shahzad1\*, Kyaw Thu2 , Ang Li2 , Azhar Bin Ismail1 and Kim Choon Ng2

\*Address all correspondence to: muhammad.shahzad@kaust.edu.sa

1 King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Water Desalination & Reuse Center (WDRC), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore

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