HYBRID SOLAR SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING HOT/COLD DESALINATED WATER AND GENERATING ELECTRICITY

The protracted water and electricity crises in Gaza are the driving force behind finding an innovative, smart, and decentralized system that can introduce – even partially – a solution, the Concentrating Solar Power (CSP), for the two interconnected problems, i.e., electricity shortage and water deficit. Accordingly, this project was implemented by UCAS in close coordination with Oxfam in 2019. The implementation has been divided into several phases, starting from reviewing different works achieved in the same regard and ending with implementing on-site the water desalination system. The project included designing and installing a prototype/pilot purification unit or system that uses solar radiation to produce fresh/desalinated home-use water. The work within this project concentrates on the technology of LFR. In this project, LFRs are constructed from long thin segments of mirrors (reflectors) which work on the Fresnel principle. The concentrated sunlight is received on a central linear absorber (receiver) which contains the working fluid and converts the reflected solar energy into thermal one.