Iranian Company Simultaneously Produces Electricity, Fresh Water
“Our company’s first key product is a thermal desalination plant. This product desalinates seawater with a quality of 50,000 ppm and production of fresh water with a quality of less than 10 ppm. This desalination plant can obtain its input energy from the recovery of waste heat from the power plant, which greatly reduces energy consumption, specially electricity, because normally desalination plants consume a lot of electricity and energy, but with this method, the energy required by the desalination plant is obtained from the recovery of waste heat from the power plant,” said Mohammad Reza Qassemi, the managing director of the knowledge-based company.
“We have also designed thermal desalination systems and manufactured, installed, and put them into operation in several projects in the Southern parts of Iran,” he added.
"The largest simultaneous water and electricity production plant in the country has been designed and implemented by our experts in Qeshm, and its desalination system produces over 18,000 cubic meters of water per day. This amount of water can meet the needs of the villages of Qeshm Island. Also, the ancillary equipment of the power plant of this plant has also been supplied by our company," Qassemi said.
In a relevant development in December, a knowledge-based company has succeeded in designing and building a portable solar water desalination device.
“Our knowledge-based company has succeeded in designing and building a portable solar water purifier which can float on seawater, salt water, or even collected rainwater and it effectively absorbs sunlight and converts it into heat,” Farzaneh Heshmati, one of the company's researchers from Tarbiat Modarres University, told ANA.
Noting that the device maximizes the rate of water evaporation and condenses and collects the purified water by using a special technology, he said, “The final output of the device is fresh and germ-free water that is completely disinfected and suitable for drinking.”
“This device is completely solar and does not require electrical energy or moving parts like a pump to operate,” Heshmati said.
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