HEATDesalination: Solar-Powered Desalination Plant Cost Optimization Results

Optimization results for the lowest lifetime cost system configurations combining solar photovoltaic, hybrid photovoltaic-thermal, and solar-thermal collectors with battery and hot-water storage. The data was produced by Benedict Winchester of Imperial College London for meeting the electrical and thermal needs of three multi-effect distillation plants.

Use Cases

• Compare cost-effectiveness of different solar collector technologies based on the described PV, PV-T, and solar-thermal systems.
• Model energy storage requirements for desalination plants based on the described battery and hot-water storage configurations.
• Benchmark lifetime cost optimization approaches for multi-effect distillation plants based on the case study results.

Strengths

• Results are derived from a case study for three distinct multi-effect distillation plants.
• The optimization targets a comprehensive system including multiple solar technologies and two storage types.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Imperial College London

Collection Method

Optimization modeling results.