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Small-scale photovoltaic-powered reverse osmosis plant without batteries: Design and simulation by Douglas B. Riffel; Paulo C.M. Carvalho is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.
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A small-scale photovoltaic (PV) powered reverse osmosis (RO) plant is designed to operate at variable flow/ pressure conditions for stand-alone applications in equatorial areas to desalinate brackish water. Two operation strategies for a PV array of 165 Wp (3 modules of 55 Wp) are simulated and compared: Plant 1 uses two modules for the RO pump and one module for the well pumping; Plant 2 uses the three modules for both applications. A DC-DC buck converter with maximum power point tracking (MPPT) was developed especially for Plant 2. Results show that Plant 2 has a better performance, such as: increase of 60% in the daily permeate production and of 32% in the daily operation period, 1.57 kWh.m À3 of average specific energy consumption and a PV power-permeate daily production rate of 0.64 Wp.L À1 for a feed water with 800 mg.L À1 of total dissolved solid.
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- Author
- Douglas B. Riffel; Paulo C.M. Carvalho
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0011-9164)
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)