Comparative 4E analysis for solar desalinated water production by utilizing organic fluid and water

Mokhtari, Hamid; Ahmadisedigh, Hossein; Ebrahimi, Iman

doi:10.1016/j.desal.2015.09.014

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“…In most of the cases [60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71] a method that some authors call "amortisation factor" or "annualised life cycle cost method" was used. In that approach, the initial capital costs were annualised by using the amortisation factor (α).…”

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“…The vast majority of the papers reviewed used a fixed rate for electricity over the whole lifetime of the desalination plant: most were in the 0.05 to 0.06 USD/kWh range [49,61,73,74,85,86,89], with few being at 0.03 USD/kWh [72,80] or below [83] and some at 0.08 USD/kWh [68,71] or above (as high as 0.11 USD/kWh) [65,75]. In two cases the authors performed a sensitivity analysis on the electricity costs ranging from very low to very high prices [67,79].…”

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“…As stated previously, there is great variability in MD cost estimations, which is caused, among other factors, by the methodology used. Therefore, the SCOW method was used, since this methodology or its modified versions has been applied in most of the existing economic assessments for desalination processes [5,49,53,61,64,[66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77][78][79][80][81][82][83]. Furthermore, this approach is also applied to calculate energy costs for several technological processes [84][85][86][87].…”

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Techno-Economic Assessment of Air and Water Gap Membrane Distillation for Seawater Desalination under Different Heat Source Scenarios

Amaya-Vías

Ramírez

2019

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Membrane distillation (MD) has a great deal of potential and this is currently being explored by the scientific community. However, this technology has not yet been implemented by industry, and an estimation of final product costs is key to its commercial success. In this study a techno-economic assessment of air gap MD (AGMD) and water gap MD (WGMD) for seawater desalination under different capacities and heat source scenarios was developed. The simplified cost of water (SCOW) method, which estimates investment costs, fixed and variable costs, as well as amortization factors and price influence over time was applied. In addition, experimental data from a laboratory-scale MD desalination plant were also used. The results showed water costs in the range of 1.56 to 7.53 €/m3 for WGMD and 2.38 to 9.60 €/m3 for AGMD. Specifically, the most feasible scenario was obtained for WGMD with a capacity of 1000 m3 daily using waste and solar heat. Finally, the costs obtained for MD were similar to those of conventional desalination technologies at the same scale factor. Therefore, although large-scale pilot studies and optimization of manufacturing processes are needed, MD shows very promising results that should be considered further.

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“…This also results in the first element being most affected by fouling, while the remainder are more prone to concentration polarization as the feed salinity increases progressively. Figure 19 presents a hybrid membrane configuration, known as a Hybrid membrane Inter-stage Design, in which a more even flux distribution can be attained using a combination of membranes varying between high permeability/low salt rejection, medium permeability/medium salt rejection and low permeability/high salt rejection [110][111][112][113][114]. This lowers the productivity and energy consumption of the first element allowing a more even flux distribution through the vessel.…”

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Solar powered desalination – Technology, energy and future outlook

2019

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Growing water demands have led to rapidly increasing desalination installation capacity worldwide. In an attempt to lower carbon footprint resulting from high-energy consuming desalination processes, attention has shifted to using renewable energy sources to power desalination. With solar irradiation ample in regions that heavily rely on desalination, solar powered desalination provides a sustainable solution to meeting water needs. The compatibility of each desalination process with the solar technology is driven by whether the kind of energy needed is thermal or electrical, as well as its availability. With rapid advances in solar energy technologiesboth photovoltaic and solar thermal, there has also been growing interest in coupling solar energy with desalination, with a focus on improving energy efficiency. In this review, the most recent developments in photovoltaic powered reverse osmosis (PV-RO), solar thermal powered reverse osmosis (ST-RO) are discussed with respect to membrane materials, process configuration, energy recovery devices and energy storage. In addition, advances in new materials for solar powered membrane distillation (MD) and solar stills in the past two years have also been reviewed. Future outlook considers the use of hybrid renewable energy systems as well as solar powered forward osmosis and dewvaporation. Solar powered desalination systems have been analysed with emphasis on technological and energy consumption aspects.

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Comparative 4E analysis for solar desalinated water production by utilizing organic fluid and water

Cited by 46 publications

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Assessment of methodologies and data used to calculate desalination costs

Assessment of methodologies and data used to calculate desalination costs

Techno-Economic Assessment of Air and Water Gap Membrane Distillation for Seawater Desalination under Different Heat Source Scenarios

Solar powered desalination – Technology, energy and future outlook

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