Optimum Selection of Renewable Energy Powered Desalination Systems

Proceedings

Ben-Mansour, Rached¹  Al-Jabr, Ahmad H.² 

[1] Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.;Department of Mechanical Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia

关键词: desalination;    renewable energy;    reverse osmosis;    wind;    photovoltaic;   

DOI  :  10.3390/proceedings2110612

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Research and development of desalination technologies are becoming highly important because of the rapid increase in freshwater demand. Researchers are continually working on improving the existing desalination technologies and exploring new methods and ideas to desalinate salty water in order to come up with cost-effective systems. Comparisons between different renewable powered desalination technologies were mainly based on different system capacity, energy source system, feed-water salinity and system components. This makes the economical comparison almost impossible. There is an existing gap in having an economical comparison to different renewable energy powered desalination systems with the same basics such as availability of renewable and water resources. This research is an attempt to provide a systematic methodology to obtain the most cost-effective renewable energy powered desalination system.

【 授权许可】

CC BY