Modeling multi effect distillation powered by CSP in TRNSYS

• Autor(a) principal: Casimiro, Sergio
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Cardoso, João P., Alarcón-Padilla, Diego-César, Turchi, Craig, Ioakimidis, C., Mendes, J. Farinha
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.9/2484
• topic: Concentrated solar power; Thermodynamic simulation; Desalination; Multi-effect-desalination; Cogeneration; TRNSYS

This work presents the results of using a new tool to simulate the cogeneration of water and electricity with Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) and Forward Feed Multi-Effect-Desalination (FF-MED) plants, by adding a new functionality to the System Advisor Model (SAM) developed by the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The controlling strategy of the MED model is presented in detail, and a case study application is shown. This study compares the results obtained with a CSP plant operating in San Diego, CA, with four different cooling systems: an MED/Seawater Cooling Circuit (SWCC), dry cooling, wet cooling, and a SWCC standalone. The results show that the usage of an MED/SWCC system in cogeneration with a CSP plant can be feasible and has the potential to be economically interesting.