SOLERAS - Solar Energy Water Desalination Project: Catalytic. System design final report. Volume 1. System requirement definition and system analysis

Technical Report · Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1986

OSTI ID:6138472

Catalytic Inc. was awarded a contract to conduct a preliminary system design and cost analysis for a brackish water desalination project to be located in Brownsville, Texas. System analyses and economic analyses were performed to define the baseline solar energy desalination system. The baseline system provides an average daily product water capacity of 6000 mT. The baseline system is optimal relative to technological risk, performance, and product water cost. Subsystems and their interfaces have been defined and product water cost projections made for commercial plants in a range of capacities. Science Applications, Inc. (SAI), subcontractor to Catalytic, had responsibility for the solar power system. This, the final report, summarizes the work performed under the Phase I effort.

• Research Organization: Midwest Research Inst., Kansas City, MO (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-83CH10093
• OSTI ID: 6138472
• Report Number(s): MRI/SOL-0404-01; ON: DE86005599
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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CONCENTRATING COLLECTORS
CONTROL SYSTEMS
COST
DATA ACQUISITION
DEMINERALIZATION
DESALINATION
DESALINATION PLANTS
DESIGN
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
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HEAT STORAGE
HEAT TRANSFER
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
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PARABOLIC COLLECTORS
PARABOLIC DISH COLLECTORS
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PERFORMANCE
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SITE SELECTION
SOLAR COLLECTORS
SOLAR EQUIPMENT
STORAGE
TEXAS
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