Effect of feed pressure on the performance of the photovoltaic powered reverse osmosis seawater desalination system

P. Gandhidasan; Sultan A. Al-Mojel

doi:10.1016/j.renene.2009.04.029

Effect of feed pressure on the performance of the photovoltaic powered reverse osmosis seawater desalination system

P. Gandhidasan^*, Sultan A. Al-Mojel

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King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

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Abstract

This paper describes the potential of the development of a seawater desalination system that combines the technologies of reverse osmosis (RO) and photovoltaic (PV) to deliver 100 m³/day of sweet water. Silicon cells are chosen for the PV array and the polyamide thin-film composite seawater Filmtec membranes are selected for the RO system. The software ROSA is adopted to study the influences of the feed pressure on the performance of the system. It is found that as the feed pressure increases, the specific energy of the plant decreases but the percentage of recovery increases.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2824-2830
Number of pages	7
Journal	Renewable Energy
Volume	34
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2009.04.029
State	Published - Dec 2009

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The authors are grateful for the financial support and the facilities provided by the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM).

Keywords

Desalination
Photovoltaic
Pressure
Reverse osmosis
Seawater

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Effect of feed pressure on the performance of the photovoltaic powered reverse osmosis seawater desalination system

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