Techno-economic assessment of applying MED and MSF plants in NEKA power plant to provide electricity and desalinated water

Alireza Poorhamidi¹ Samane Zamani² Hadi Khoshhal³

1) Technical expert of National Standard organization of Iran, Department of Energy and environment
2) Technical expert of power plant transmission systems
3) Head of renewable energy team in National Standard organization of Iran, Department of Energy and environment.

Publication : The 4th International conference of Science and Engineering(4icesconf.com)
Abstract :
In this paper, we are going to apply two different methods of thermal desalination in convectional NEKA power plant and then compare advantages and disadvantages of each method to obtain a wide sight to select the most appropriate one. By the first step, we will simulate NEKA power plant at design mode and then we wish to apply MED and MSF plants to produce desalinated water from Caspian Sea. NEKA power plant is able to generate 440 MW at its design mode. Simulation results also confirm the accuracy our operation. We are going to introduce these two different desalination plants and we will review some of the same projects in this area of study. Moreover, we will simulate NEKA power plant at its design mode and then we apply MED and MSF plants to our simulation. Finally, a techno-economic comparison is accomplished to make the best decision of employing the most efficient one in NEKA power plant.
Keywords : Keywords: Multi effect desalination multi stage desalination heat balance power plant generated power total desalinated water