Current Situation and Potential of Seawater Desalination Loads to Consume Renewable Energy

作者：Junci Tang, Chu Shuai, Shitan Zhang, Weichun Ge, Dai Cui, Chuang Liu · 年份：2021 · DOI：10.1109/ccdc52312.2021.9601970 · 被引用次数：1 · 研究领域：Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies、Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods、Membrane Separation Technologies

With the growing proportion of renewable energy in the electricity supply, the excess energy generated by renewable energy is also increasing. Interruptible loads are seriously needed for renewable energy consumption. Desalination loads are interruptible loads. They can deal with the intermittence of new energy and be used to consume excess renewables. The paper proposes to use desalination loads to consume excess capacity generated by renewable energy. First, this paper introduces the development status of desalination techniques and the energy consumption component of desalination systems. Then, different desalination technologies are studied to figure out how to combine them with different renewable energy sources to produce more efficient systems. Finally, considering the flexible operation characteristics, the potential of desalination loads participating in the power market is exploited in this article.