Solar Powered Seawater Desalination Plant
Siemens austria has produced and installed the world s first large scale solar powered desalination plant.
Solar powered seawater desalination plant. The plant in saudi arabia is controlled according to the solar energy available in order that the highest possible proportion of renewable energy is used for water desalination. Solar arrays will be installed on a 90ha area located approximately 1km away from the desalination plant. Solar desalination is a technique to produce water with a low salt concentration from sea water or brine using solar energy. Details of this large scale solar powered desalination plant the solar desalination plant will be built over a 250m x 700m area adjacent to an existing swro plant.
At a newly constructed solar powered desalination plant in kenya a nonprofit called givepower has been able to provide fresh water to thousands. Along with the electrical monitoring and control technology siemens also supplied the transformers for the power supply system. According to the developer this will be the. The desalination plant opened up on the coasts of.
The latest move is a solar powered desalination plant aimed at treating 60 000 square meters of seawater daily for the northeastern city of al khafji. The collection of solar energy through photovoltaic cells or solar panels and the desalination of water in a conventional desalination plant. First energy is collected by an array of solar panels in the same way that any solar panel system works.