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Reverse Osmosis Desalination Plants Energy Consumption Management and Optimization for Improving Power Systems Voltage Stability with PV Generation Resources

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  • Zeyad A. Haidar

    (Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh 11421, Saudi Arabia
    Sustainable Energy Technologies Center, College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh 11421, Saudi Arabia
    Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Aden University, Aden 6312, Yemen)

  • Mamdooh Al-Saud

    (Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh 11421, Saudi Arabia)

  • Jamel Orfi

    (Mechanical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh 11421, Saudi Arabia
    K.A.CARE Energy Research and Innovation Center at Riyadh, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia)

  • Hany Al-Ansary

    (Mechanical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh 11421, Saudi Arabia
    K.A.CARE Energy Research and Innovation Center at Riyadh, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia)

Abstract

This paper studies energy consumption management of seawater Reverse Osmosis (RO) desalination plants to maintain and enhance the Voltage Stability (VS) of Power Systems (PS) with Photovoltaic (PV) plant integration. We proposed a voltage-based management algorithm to determine the maximum power consumption for RO plants. The algorithm uses power flow study to determine the RO plant power consumption allowed within the voltage-permissible limits, considering the RO process constraints in order to maintain the desired fresh water supply. Three cases were studied for the proposed RO plant: typical operation with constant power consumption, controlled operation using ON/OFF scheduling of the High-Pressure Pumps (HPPs) and controlled operation using Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) control. A modified IEEE 30-bus system with a variable load was used as a case study with integration of three PV plants of 75 MWp total power capacity. The adopted 33.33 MW RO plant has a maximum capacity of 200,000 m 3 /day of fresh water production. The results reveal that while typical operation of RO plants can lead to voltage violation, applying the proposed load management algorithm can maintain the vs. of the PS. The total transmission power loss and power lines loading were also reduced. However, the study shows that applying VFD control is better than using ON/OFF control because the latter involves frequent starting up/shutting down the RO trains, which consequently requires flushing and cleaning procedures. Moreover, the specific energy consumption ( SEC ) and RO plant recover ratio decreases proportionally to the VFD output. Furthermore, the power consumption of the RO plant was optimized using the PSO technique to avoid unnecessary restriction of RO plant operation and water shortage likelihood.

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  • Zeyad A. Haidar & Mamdooh Al-Saud & Jamel Orfi & Hany Al-Ansary, 2021. "Reverse Osmosis Desalination Plants Energy Consumption Management and Optimization for Improving Power Systems Voltage Stability with PV Generation Resources," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(22), pages 1-21, November.
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