Triple-renewable energy system for electricity production and water desalination

• DOI: 10.1007/s11356-022-22547-2
• Publication Date: 2022-08-29T05:04:39Z
• Authors: Emad Abdelsalam; Fares Almomani; Hamza Alnawafah; Radi Alrashed
• Keywords: 690; Fossil Fuels; Cooling tower; Water distillation; Advances in Science, Engineering and Technology in Combating Pollution for a Sustainable Future; Pollution and contamination; FOS: Environmental engineering; Water; Environmental engineering; 02 engineering and technology; 7. Clean energy; 6. Clean water; Solar energy; Electricity; 13. Climate action; Sunlight; Solar Energy; 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; Renewable Energy; Solar chimney; Photovoltaic

Abstract This work presents a novel triple-renewable energy system (TRES) that is based on integrating the photovoltaic panels (PVPs), conventional solar chimney (CSC), and cooling tower (CT) in one structure. The ultimate objective of proposed TRES to produce electrical power (P elc ), desalinated water (D w if required utilities. components include tower, collector, base, PVPs, pool, bi-directional turbine, sprinklers. can be operated as CSC during daytime CT at night providing 24-h operation. PVPs were integrated within structure increase P production enhance process performance by heating air inside system. increased efficiency 0.860% comparison with (0.313%). annual from was found 792 MWh compared only 380 generated achieving 2.1 folds overall improvement. CSC-PV contributed 47% (494 MWh) 24% (253 production, respectively. D 1.2-fold higher (163,142 tons) than (139,443 tons). newly developed offers great potential save fossil fuel consumption while reducing emissions greenhouse gasses (GHGs) atmosphere.