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Solar power and desalination plant for copper industry: improvised techniques

  • Sankar, D. (Development Consultants Private Limited, Consulting Engineers) ;
  • Deepa, N. (Presidency College (Autonomous)) ;
  • Rajagopal, S. (Development Consultants Private Limited, Consulting Engineers) ;
  • Karthik, K.M. (Development Consultants Private Limited, Consulting Engineers)
  • Received : 2014.12.23
  • Accepted : 2015.05.14
  • Published : 2015.05.25
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Abstract

In India, continuous production of electricity and sweet/potable water from Solar power and desalination plant plays a major role in the industries. Particularly in Copper industry, Solar power adopts Solar field collector combined with thermal storage system and steam Boiler, Turbine & Generator (BTG) for electricity production and desalination plant adopts Reverse osmosis (RO) for sweet/potable water production which cannot be used for long hours of power generation and consistency of energy supply for industrial processes and power generation cannot be ensured. This paper presents an overview of enhanced technology for Solar power and Desalination plant for Copper industry making it continuous production of electricity and sweet/potable water. The conventional technology can be replaced with this proposed technique in the existing and upcoming industries.

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