Distributed desalination using solar energy: A technoeconomic framework to decarbonize nontraditional water treatment.
energy modeling
energy resources
energy sustainability
engineering
water resources engineering
Journal
iScience
ISSN: 2589-0042
Titre abrégé: iScience
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101724038
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
17 Feb 2023
17 Feb 2023
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Résumé
Desalination using renewable energy offers a route to transform our incumbent linear consumption model to a circular one. This transition will also shift desalination from large-scale centralized coastal facilities toward modular distributed inland plants. This new scale of desalination can be satisfied using solar energy to decarbonize water production, but additional considerations, such as storage and inland brine management, become important. Here, we evaluate the levelized cost of water for 16 solar desalination system configurations at 2 different salinities. For fossil fuel-driven plants, we find that zero-liquid discharge is economically favorable to inland brine disposal. For renewable desalination, we discover that solar-thermal energy is superior to photovoltaics due to low thermal storage cost and that energy storage, despite being expensive, outperforms water storage as the latter has a low utilization factor. The analysis also yields a promising outlook for solar desalination by 2030 as solar generation and storage costs decrease.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36756368
doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.105966
pii: S2589-0042(23)00043-3
pmc: PMC9900398
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Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Pagination
105966Informations de copyright
© 2023 The Author(s).
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare no competing interests.
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