Experiment on a desalination system integrated with renewable energy with capacity of 200-300 liters/hour

Abstract

Clean water and energy have been big issues for remote islands and coastline areas of Vietnam. Therefore, by considering the current situation, the paper designs and develops a small and mobile desalination system, which can integrate with renewable energy. The results of testing system show that the system can treat feed water from 3.1% to 3.3% of salinity to produce clean water lower than 1000 ppm of total dissolved solids (TDS), which satisfies the TDS requirements of National technical regulations of Vietnam on domestic water quality. The capacity is about up to 300 liters of clean water per hour. In addition, the energy-consumption rate of the proposed system is about 4 kWh per 1 m3 of clean water produced.