Towards Integrating Desalination and Wave Energy Conversion Technologies
(0) Desalination has become an increasingly important technology as fresh water supplies become scarce on a global scale.These scarcities,which have been exacerbated by drought and other recent climatic fluctuations,have given rise to many new technologies which have increased the viability of salt water desalinization.However,as desalinization is an energy intensive process,there has been recent interest in utilizing renewable energy resources to produce fresh water for drinking,irrigation or other means.Most recent experimental endeavours in this area have involved reverse osmosis desalinization combined with solar or wind energy conversion devices.In comparison to these studies,comparatively little has been done involving the combination of wave energy conversion and saltwater desalinization.One of the main attractions of this combination is the colocation of conversion devices; both could be situated at or near the same geographic location.In this paper,we discuss the most prevalent desalinization and wave energy processes and perform an analysis to determine their combined suitability in a small region in the southwest USA.The considered desalination processes are Multiple Effect(ME),Multi Stage Flash(MSF),and Reverse Osmosis(RO)technologies,and the considered wave energy conversion devices are Oscillating Water Column(OWC),Attenuators,and Point Absorbers(PO).The simulation results obtained from SWAN software and suitable conversion values for both devices conclude that,though still an underdeveloped technology,combined wave and desalinization plants could prove increasingly viable in future years.
Wave energy desalination efficiency sustainability
Brian Stiber David MacPhee Asfaw Beyene
San Diego State University,Department of Mechanical Engineering,San Diego,CA,USA
国际会议
桂林
英文
1-15
2013-07-16（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）