New Prospects for PV Powered Water Desalination Plants in Sunny and Arid Regions
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This paper summarizes a study of the economic and environmental performance of Reverse Osmosis (RO) desalination powered mainly with photovoltaics. It is based on up-to-date cost data for photovoltaic power plants and RO desalination plants. A case study is presented of a plant producing 6550 m water per day on the coast of the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia powered by 3-MWdc PV or HCPV capacities. We used the HOMER Energy Modeling Software and the DEEP 5.0 desalination software to analyze the economic and environmental feasibility of these plants. Among other applications, solar electricity can produce affordable fresh water from sea water and pump it inland. Based on the results of this case study we infer the business prospects associated with large deployment of PV-RO plants in the greater Middle East and other sunny and arid regions.
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