Comparative analysis of technical and economic parameters of different schemes of the electric power supply of autonomous desalination plants

Abstract

This article reviews possible schemes of the power supply of an autonomous reverse osmosis desalination plant that uses a photoelectric converter as primary energy sources. Using the climate data of several regions that have a shortage of fresh water for drinking and technical purposes, a technical and economic evaluation of the use of solar energy for obtaining fresh water in regions with high levels of solar radiation was performed. The prospects of the partial or complete substitution of diesel fuel by energy derived from photoelectric converters in such systems for regions with a high level of insolation and cost of diesel fuel are shown.