Renewable Energy in Water Desalination: Model Based Approach
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Biological Processes and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2016) | Viewed by 5517
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Interests: dynamic modelling; simulation; optimization and control of batch and continuous chemical processes with specific interests in distillation; industrial reactors; refinery processes; desalination; wastewater treatment
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Dear Colleagues,
Coupling renewable energy sources (RES), such as solar, wind, and geothermal energy, with traditional fossil-fuel-based energy systems in water desalination can lead to energy efficient processes with significantly reduced environmental impact in terms of greenhouse gas emissions and carbon footprint. Solar technologies produce a large amount of heat, which typically suits thermal desalination. Wind-energy-based electricity, on the other hand, is often combined with membrane desalination. Currently, around 1% of the total desalinated water is based on energy from RES. Interestingly, the countries suffering from shortage of drinking water sources have significant amounts of RES. The limited use of renewable energy can be attributed to more than one problem, such as a lack of information, education, training and research. Moreover, the use of expensive energy storage systems, due to the stochastic nature of RES, usually limits the exploitation of RES. Various methods (experimental to simple calculations) to evaluate the economic viability of coupling renewable energy sources with desalination plants have been published; however, serious model-based techniques have not yet been considered in this area. The development of hybrid desalination/renewable energy model is very complex because of uncertain renewable energy supplies, load demands, and large numbers of parameters. However, the need for such a model is crucial to provide extensive analysis for combining desalination systems with renewable energy sources.
This Special Issue, therefore, seeks to collect recent research efforts where model-based techniques have been utilised in exploring the full potential of the use of renewable energy in water desalination.
Prof. Dr. Iqbal M. Mujtaba
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Water desalination
- Thermal desalination
- Membrane desalination
- Renewable Energy
- Process Model
- Operation, design and economic optimisation
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