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Solar powered seawater desalination plant.
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 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.
First energy is collected by an array of solar panels in the same way that any solar panel system works.
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.
The collection of solar energy through photovoltaic cells or solar panels and the desalination of water in a conventional desalination plant.
The indirect method of solar desalination involves two steps.
Siemens austria has produced and installed the world s first large scale solar powered desalination plant.
Either using the direct heat from the sun or using electricity generated by solar cells to power a membrane process.
There are two common methods of solar desalination.
Along with the electrical monitoring and control technology siemens also supplied the transformers for the power supply system.
The desalination plant opened up on the coasts of.