Description And Selection of A Desalination System Based on Combining Solar Energy With Membrane Module technology

Abstract

Water and sanitation condition in gaza strip and west bank are facing severe problem in addition to poor conditions of existing municipality infrastructure that adversely affect the local environment, the ecological system and the public health. The lack of power system has , in the past two years , lead to polluting the coastal aquifer, which is the only water resource that gaza strip has, with the untreated wastewater and the intruded sea water. Acreative solution is presented by which a local technology could be used in addition to utilizing the available solar energy for providing the proper thermal and electrical energy needed. The proposed solution based on using a reverse osmosis membrane desalination technology operated by solar energy conversion system, the conversion system uses evacuated tubes for providing the thermal energy needed and photovoltaic solar modules for providing the needed electrical power. This project selects a suitable components which based on calculations and design and by using a software simulation program to simplify this calculations.