How to Use Wind Power Efficiently for Seawater Reverse Osmosis Desalination

• 作者: Divas Karimanzira
• 来源期刊: 能源与动力工程(英文)
• 学科: 数学
• 关键词: Wind-Powered Desalination Energy Storage Optimal Scheduling Energy Re-covery
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（9）
• 页码范围: 499-520
• 页数: 22页
• 分类号: O17

摘要

Due to water scarcity and the global trends in climate change, winning drinking </span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">water through desalination is increasingly becoming an option, especially using reverse osmosis (RO) membrane technology. Operating a reverse osmosis desalination plant is associated with several expenses and energy consumption </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">that </span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">take a very large share. Several studies have shown that wind power incurs lower energy costs compared to other renewable energy sources, therefore, should be the first choice to be coupled to an RO desalination system to clean water using sustainable energy. Therefore, in this </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">paper</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">,</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> we investigate the feasibility of driving a</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">n</span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> RO desalination system using wind power with and without pressure vessel energy storage and small scale energy recovery us</span><span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">ing </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Clark</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> pump based on simulation models. The performance of both variants </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">w</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">as</span></span></span><spa