TECHNO-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF A REVERSE OSMOSIS DESALINATION PLANT RUN BY PHOTOVOLTAICS FOR METU NCC

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Northern Cyprus has always depended on groundwater as the main source of domestic and irrigation water use. However, aquifers have been depleted faster than they have been recovering, resulting in a challenging water situation in Northern Cyprus. Recently built water pipeline from Turkey to Northern Cyprus has greatly resolved this issue. However, the recent breakdown of the pipeline and its climate-dependent source in Turkey has been the motivation of this study to evaluate other alternative sources for the island. Sea Water Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) is a desalination technology that can help Northern Cyprus solve the water problems it has been facing by making sea water drinkable or suitable for domestic and irrigation purposes in a most sustainable manner. The SWRO plant in this study will be providing 560 m3/day of water for METU NCC and will be powered by photovoltaic solar panels with an energy recovery unit to improve efficiency by using the hydraulic power of the rejected brine. The model shows the economic feasibility of the SWRO plant by using the water consumption and weather data of METU NCC. The specific energy of desalinated water was found to be between 3.08 and 5.66 kWh/m3 depending on the configuration. While the price of a cubic meter of produced water was found to be between 1.26 and 1.53 $/m3.

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Seawater desalination, LCOW, PV, TRNC, Deniz suyu ters ozmoz, KKTC

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/95241

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A. Ibrahim, “TECHNO-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF A REVERSE OSMOSIS DESALINATION PLANT RUN BY PHOTOVOLTAICS FOR METU NCC,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2021.