Hybridized PV and CSP for Desalination: Techno-Economic Analysis of Reverse Osmosis Desalination Plant Powered by Hybridized PV and CSP Systems for Irrigation Water

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2022-8-17

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Gedik, Eylul
Alarcon-Padilla, Diego-Cesar
Baker, Derek Keıth

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Large market opportunities exist for solar powered Reverse Osmosis (RO) desalination tech-nologies in fertile but arid areas with large solar and sea water resources. A challenge to real-izing these markets is the variable nature of solar resources, which for the desalination plant can lead to high water costs due to low capacity factors (CF) and increased maintenance costs due to repeated start-ups and shut-downs. A potential solution is to power RO plants using both PV and CSP with Thermal Energy Storage (TES) with an aim to reduce shut-downs, and increase CF. In this study, three solar energy systems to power RO are consid-ered: 1) PV only; 2) CSP with central receiver (CR) and TES; 3) PV and CSP with CR and TES. Two RO operational strategies are considered: 1) nominal load only; 2) variable load between minimal and nominal. The performance of these systems is simulated for Mersin, Turkey, using TMY data. The PV and CSP with TES system and variable RO operation achieved the levelized cost of water (LCOW) (1.92 USD m-3) with an RO CF of 60.8%.

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Solar, Desalination, Concentrated Solar, PV

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/98560

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E. Gedik, D.-C. Alarcon-Padilla, and D. K. Baker, “Hybridized PV and CSP for Desalination: Techno-Economic Analysis of Reverse Osmosis Desalination Plant Powered by Hybridized PV and CSP Systems for Irrigation Water,” 2022. Accessed: 00, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/98560.