A new visual library for modeling and simulation of renewable energy desalination systems (REDS)

The recourse to renewable energy systems in general has become a reality. Thus, it has become very important for engineers to design and simulate such systems that serve the renewable desalination plants. A computer software package has been developed by the authors for design and simulation of rene...

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Published in:Desalination and water treatment 2013-11, Vol.51 (37-39), p.6905-6920
Main Authors: Sharaf Eldean, Mohamed A., Soliman, A.M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied sciences
Computer programs
Computer simulation
Desalination
Design engineering
Drinking water and swimming-pool water. Desalination
Exact sciences and technology
Geothermal power
Libraries
Mathematical models
Pollution
Renewable energy
Software
Solar desalination
Water treatment and pollution
Wind energy
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Summary:The recourse to renewable energy systems in general has become a reality. Thus, it has become very important for engineers to design and simulate such systems that serve the renewable desalination plants. A computer software package has been developed by the authors for design and simulation of renewable energy desalination systems (REDS). This was motivated by unavailability of such packages in the literature or on a commercial scale. Solar desalination systems, wind desalination systems, and geothermal desalination systems software libraries became affirmative parts of the main REDS software library. This library enables the user to construct different configurations by clicking the mouse over the required units (blocks). The interface aids designers, scientists, and operators to perform different analyses and calculations such as energy, exergy, cost, and thermoeconomics. Typical desalination processes such as a multi-stage flash, multi-effect distillation, and reverse osmosis are numerically modeled and embedded within the main library of the developed software. REDS shows a wide scope of validity, reliability, and capability to model and simulate renewable desalination systems.
ISSN:1944-3986
1944-3994
1944-3986
DOI:10.1080/19443994.2013.777369