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Financial, economic and environmental analyses of upgrading reverse osmosis plant fed with treated wastewater

Chamaki, Foroogh Nazari; Jenkins, Glenn P.; … - 2023

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Design, economic analysis and environmental considerations of mini-grid hybrid power system with reverse osmosis desalination plant for remote areas

Setiawan, Ahmad Agus; Zhao, Yu; Nayar, Chem. V. - In: Renewable Energy 34 (2009) 2, pp. 374-383

This paper discusses the design process of a mini-grid hybrid power system with reverse osmosis desalination plant for … sources and a diesel generator with a reverse osmosis desalination plant as a deferrable load. The economic issues analysed … reverse osmosis desalination plant, rated at 5.5kWh/day, are also presented here to verify the idea of providing power and …

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Demand side management for remote area power supply systems incorporating solar irradiance model

Al-Alawi, Ali; Islam, S.M - In: Renewable Energy 29 (2004) 13, pp. 2027-2036

desalination unit to provide the necessary freshwater. Demand side management (DSM) is used in this study to smooth out the daily …

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Predictive control of an integrated PV-diesel water and power supply system using an artificial neural network

Al-Alawi, Ali; M Al-Alawi, Saleh; M Islam, Syed - In: Renewable Energy 32 (2007) 8, pp. 1426-1439

osmosis desalination unit. The electrical load consists of typical households and the desalination plant. The proposed …

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On the feasibility of community-scale photovoltaic-powered reverse osmosis desalination systems for remote locations

Bilton, Amy M.; Wiesman, Richard; Arif, A.F.M.; Zubair, … - In: Renewable Energy 36 (2011) 12, pp. 3246-3256

This paper presents a generalized methodology to evaluate the feasibility of photovoltaic-powered reverse osmosis (PVRO) systems for small, remote communities in challenging environments. The economic feasibility is determined by comparing the cost of water from a photovoltaic reverse osmosis...

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Designing cost-effective seawater reverse osmosis system under optimal energy options

Gilau, Asmerom M.; Small, Mitchell J. - In: Renewable Energy 33 (2008) 4, pp. 617-630

Today, three billion people around the world have no access to clean drinking water and about 1.76 billion people live in areas already facing a high degree of water stress. This paper analyzes the cost-effectiveness of a stand alone small-scale renewable energy-powered seawater reverse osmosis...

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Potential for economic solar desalination in the Middle East

Abdelrassoul, Roshdy A. - In: Renewable Energy 14 (1998) 1, pp. 345-349

Fresh water forms only about 1% of the total water available on earth. Technologies for the desalination of seawater … have considerably matured in the last decade. However, the energy required for the desalination is usually expensive in … desalination, limited only by their initial cost, and the variability of the available energy. In this paper the potential use of …

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Feasibility of utilizing solar energy to power reverse osmosis domestic unit to desalinate water in the state of Bahrain

Al-Qahtani, Haitham - In: Renewable Energy 8 (1996) 1, pp. 500-504

The present study is examing the viability of photovoltic power to run domestic reverse osmosis (RO) units in residential houses to desalinate brackish water supplied by the water authority. It was found that using RO/Solar system only in houses in the state of Bahrain would produce 110,000 m3...

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Small scale photovoltaic desalination for rural water supply - demonstration plant in Gran Canaria

Herold, D.; Horstmann, V.; Neskakis, A.; … - In: Renewable Energy 14 (1998) 1, pp. 293-298

A small reverse osmoisis (RO) plant supplied by a photovoltaic (PV) power supply has been installed at the island of Gran Canaria. On behalf of this system the feasibility of small PV-RO systems (1 m3/d) is investigated. The RO-plant is described in detail concerning its technical...

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Integration of thermal energy and seawater desalination

Deng, Runya; Xie, Lixin; Lin, Hu; Liu, Jie; Han, Wei - In: Energy 35 (2010) 11, pp. 4368-4374

utilization system and seawater desalination is considered as an innovative technology enabling efficient simultaneous use of … middle or low temperature thermal energy and supply freshwater. Three feasible approaches to integrate seawater desalination … with energy utilization system are presented in this paper, including combinations of the desalination process with a …

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