Renewable Energy in Water Treatment and Desalination

  • Electrical & Control Engineering |

Description

The course provides the basic concept of desalination of sea and brackish water as a common technique to alleviate the increasing shortage of fresh water in many areas of the world today the development of desalination technologies associated with the use of renewable energies automation of water supply and loads economics of desalination processes and regulation.

Program

Renewable Energy and Environmental Engineering (REEE)

Objectives

  • The general purpose of this course is to provide postgraduate students with the latest knowledge of the different existing technologies involving the use of renewable energy to drive desalination techniques. More specifically, the course will instruct scientists and technicians on the basic principles of desalination using renewable energy, the state of the art of the most promising technologies and the experiences acquired so far. Theoretical lessons will be complemented with practical exercises.

Textbook

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Course Content

content serial Description
1Review of the current technological status (main components and performance features) and worldwide development of all renewable energies.
2Review of conventional and innovative desalination technologies, suitable to be coupled with renewable energies.
3Analyze cost status for both power/energy and water production with both conventional and renewable energies technologies.
4Show how the thermal storage can convert uncontrollable solar energy into full reliable and dispatchable continuous energy/power.
5Design and assess the performance of static solar collector fields to provide low temperature process heat for specific thermal desalination technologies.
6Calculate and design parabolic trough solar fields to provide process heat to MED or MSF thermal desalination processes.
7Design and size solar PV fields for SWRO applications.
8Explain how to among different PV technologies to specific projects.
9Assess the water cost of different desalination processes when driven by solar energies.
10Automation of water supply system and Smart water meter.
11Case study and application.

Markets and Career

  • Generation, transmission, distribution and utilization of electrical power for public and private sectors to secure both continuous and emergency demands.
  • Electrical power feeding for civil and military marine and aviation utilities.
  • Electrical works in construction engineering.

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