Concept for optimization and simulation of renewable energy parks with desalination

Buschert, D.; Bitzer, B.

doi:10.24084/repqj07.376

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“…The Sunwater project [2] was an international project between Germany, Egypt and UK. This project was funded by the RDI in Egypt and it was initialized by this author.…”

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Sunwater and beyond

Buschert¹,

Bitzer²

2014

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Due to the increasing water shortages not only in sunny countries, but also in a lot of other states, the demand on freshwater will increase worldwide in the near future. Good examples are the newly industrializing countries. The freshwater demand increases with the wealth of the inhabitants. The so called virtual water must also be taken into account. This is water which is needed to produce products, but it is not included in the final commodity. During the Sunwater project a demonstration plant was planned, modeled, simulated and installed which uses renewable energies to desalinate freshwater with a very high quality. Solar thermal energy was used to convert saltwater from the Red Sea into freshwater. For this purpose an innovative evaporation desalination unit from Germany was used. The complete project was a feasibility study with partners from Germany, Egypt and UK. In this paper a few modifications and additional application possibilities are presented to use this demonstration plant. This includes e. g. other prospects for the heat storage tanks and the usage of the water desalination unit itself.

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“…The Sunwater project [2] was an international project between Germany, Egypt and UK. This project was funded by the RDI in Egypt and it was initialized by this author.…”

Section: Sunwater Projectmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This project was funded by the RDI in Egypt and it was initialized by this author. The first idea of the project was shown in [1] and in [2]. First results of this future oriented project were shown in [3] and [4].…”

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Sunwater and beyond

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2014

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“…As can be seen in this figure the global solar irradiance during the year is between 850 W/m² and 1000 W/m² and the value is relative constant during the whole year. This information is very important to plan the complete demonstration plant and to do an adequate simulation [2]. So the sun can be used for a cost effective energy production during the whole year in Egypt.…”

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“…1). An approximately formula which describes the evaporation is the equation of Penman which was invented in the year 1948 [2]:…”

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Modeling a solar desalination

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2010

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In the last years the demand on fresh water continuously increase worldwide and the future demand is difficult to estimate, but due to the growth of population and the increase of the worldwide demand on consumer goods the water demand will also rise in the close and far future. Furthermore more environmental neutral energy resources are needed to fulfill the needed energy requirements in the future. One option is to use solar thermal energy to produce (process) heat. This paper is about the modeling of a demonstration plant in the Egyptian Sunwater project. The energy from renewable energy source is used to operate a water desalination unit and to produce freshwater environmental friendly. The main heat generator for the water desalination unit are solar thermal panels. The produced freshwater is free of ingredients and it can be used, with the accumulation of trace elements, as normal drinking water. The water desalination module works with evaporation and the whole construction will be installed close to a hotel complex in Egypt as a demonstration plant. It is funded by the EU and the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in Egypt (RDI). This project is a feasibility study to show the possibility to combine solar thermal energy and a water desalination module working with evaporation. It could be an impulse for future research projects and for a freshwater supply not only in dry and hot countries like in Africa. For the installation of the components at the demonstration plant a system model and a simulation was done to combine the right components at the building site to a sustainable system.

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Simulation and Optimization of Renewable Energy-Powered Desalination: A Bibliometric Analysis and Highlights of Recent Research

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Seawater desalination is emerging as one of the preferred systems for dealing with the problems of freshwater scarcity, which makes it necessary to redouble efforts to obtain an optimal and competent production process. For this reason, the coupling of water desalination and renewable energy systems is not surprising. This study applied a bibliometric analysis to evaluate the research trends on desalination systems and renewable energies from an engineering approach using optimizations or simulation techniques. The Scopus database was used for this study, selecting articles published between 2009 and 2022. A general analysis was carried out regarding trends in the number of articles produced, number of citations, subject area, journals, countries, institutes, and authors. Further, a more specific analysis was then performed in terms of renewable energy technologies used and preferred optimization/simulation methods and software used. The results also revealed that the field is growing, based on the number of articles published and the increase in citations. On the other hand, it was found that the most studied renewable energies, in coupling with desalination systems and from an optimization/simulation approach, are solar and wind.

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Concept for optimization and simulation of renewable energy parks with desalination

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Sunwater and beyond

Sunwater and beyond

Modeling a solar desalination

Simulation and Optimization of Renewable Energy-Powered Desalination: A Bibliometric Analysis and Highlights of Recent Research

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