Techno-economic Evaluation of Fresh Water Supply in Deprived Areas of Iran by Using Hybrid Energy Systems - Case Study: Talang Village in Sistan and Baluchestan

Document Type : Scientific Paper

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1 Department of Renewable Energies and Environment, Faculty of New Sciences and Technologies, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

2 Department of Agronomy, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran./ M. Sc. Student, Department of New Energies and Environment, Faculty of New Sciences and Technologies, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

3 M. Sc. Student, Department of New Energies and Environment, Faculty of New Sciences and Technologies, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Energy shortages and water deficit are two serious global challenges in deprived villages. Today, the use of surface water treatment technologies has become an ideal solution to the problem of shortage of drinking water in remote areas, but low accessibility of energy has limited their usages. In this study, in order to provide the required power of a reverse osmosis brackish water desalination device, a hybrid system consisting of solar panel, wind turbine, diesel generator and battery was evaluated techno-economically. The results of HOMER software showed that the hybrid energy system consisting of a combination of these technologies with an energy cost of 0.083 $/kWh and more than 45% of energy production from renewable sources can be an affordable water purifier. This efficient system can prevent the annual consumption of more than 4700 liters of diesel fuel. Also, the cost of fresh water production from the proposed system is about 0.95 $/m3, which can be reduced to less than 0.6 $/m3 by halving the price of reverse osmosis technology. These results indicate the appropriate ability to use hybrid systems for supply fresh water in deprived areas of Iran.

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Water,Soil and Air Protection
Volume 1, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1
January 2021
Pages 13-25

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