Solar membrane distillation: a control perspective
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Gil, Juan Diego; Ruiz-Aguirre, Alba; Roca, Lidia; Zaragoza del Águila, Guillermo![Autoridad Universidad de Almería Autoridad Universidad de Almería](/themes/Mirage2/images/autoridades/autoridad.png)
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2015Resumen
This paper presents a preliminary architecture for controlling solar membrane distillation facilities. Membrane
distillation (MD) is a desalination technology under investigation, without industrial applications and with only
few pilot systems. There is a general lack of information on how these systems perform during real solar-powered
operation and how distillate quality deteriorates under intermittent conditions. One of the few systems that have
been fully described in literature is the MD-solar pilot plant in Plataforma Solar de Almería (PSA), Spain. This paper presents a first step towards an optimal automatic operation of this system through the definition of operation modes and basic control loops. A discussion of control schemes to be implemented in the near future is also included in this work.