Abstract
A solar desalination plant was installed at the Plataforma Solar de Almería (PSA), Spain, and its first start-up took place in July, 1988. It is a multi-effect distillation (MED) system coupled to a one-axis tracking collector field and to a double-effect absorption heat pump. This plant was thermo-economically analyzed in some aspects, which complete the previous studies performed by the research team of the PSA. In this paper the influence on the product cost of some parameters was evaluated: thermal energy cost, number of effects, plant capacity and daily operation hours. In addition, the water costs of this solar MED plant were compared with a conventional energy source plant. Moreover, the effect on the competitiveness of the solar desalination system of the financial and fiscal politics parameters has been studied as well as the effect of the fuel and equipment cost evolution.
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