Objetivo The objective of this proposal is the development and delivery of an integrated management and design tool for the use of renewables energies (wind, solar, geothermal) in the desalination of seawater that will be implemented in arid remote and isolated communities. The tool will be applied, as a pilot project, in the small Greek islands of the Dodecanese in the southeastern Aegean. The results of the application of this tool would be elaborated together with the local authorities and will therefore be directly applicable. This tool will also be of use to remote arid communities all over Europe. This tool, based on multi criteria analysis (MCA), will be able to evaluate the feasible RES-desalination capacity, select the sites of the RES units, and estimate the economic efficiency of the plants. The dissemination of the results plays an important role to the proposed project. The objective of the dissemination plan is to illustrate the feasibility of RES desalination coupling schemes to solve water shortage problems.Description:The first phase of the study will be the collection of all techno-economical data concerning the RES desalination coupling technologies. The study will include data from operating systems from various locations, such as the Middle East, Spain and the USA. Technical and economical restriction parameters will be identified and will be considered in the modelling of RES desalination coupling solutions. The next part of the study will constitute a marketing research about desalination systems and all the mechanical equipment necessary for the operation of the plants. In the second phase a multi criteria analysis (MCA) tool will be developed. The MCA tool will take into account specific regional data (such as RES potential, fresh water demand and supply) in order to identify the optimum RES desalination solution for each region separately. The next two phases consist of the implementation of the developed methodology. The case study of the arid Dodecanese islands will be considered. Initially a Geographical Information System (GIS) database will be realised. The database will include the available RES potential (solar, biomass, wind and geothermal resources) for each island and water supply and demand data. A group of engineers will visit the islands to collect the necessary information in collaboration with local authorities. The information collected from the islands will be the input to the MCA tool in order to design an appropriate RES desalination system for each island.The designed systems will have as a backbone the use of renewable energy sources, will be environmentally friendly and will produce potable water at the lowest possible cost. The most important considerations of this part are the coverage of the demand in fresh water, the low production cost of fresh water and the acceptance of the RES plants by the local communities. After the selection of the appropriate equipment, it will be possible to calculate the total cost of the plants and the operation cost per year. The last part of the project will focus on the dissemination strategy to achieve the implementation of RES in a regional, national and European level.The implementation of the proposed project will result in the developing of a market potential of renewable energy systems in the EU. The project will offer to industrial entities and decision-makers a technological database that will provide the necessary techno-economical data and the methodological framework for the efficient exploitation of the available RES potential for desalination purposes.Furthermore, the production of a tool, in a user-friendly form, will provide the methodology to be applied for carrying out similar projects throughout Europe, and will be valuable to many interested local and regional authorities. In this way, the interdisciplinary, complex problem of choosing, dimensioning and evaluating RES desalination schemes that will cover water demands of remote communities will become easier to deal with. The dissemination of project outcomes will prove the importance of renewables to end-users for sustainable development, new job creation, the development of indigenous resources and industrial and service activities. Programa(s) ENG-ALTENER 2 - Multiannual programme for the promotion of renewable energy sources in the Community, 1998-2002 Tema(s) Data not available Convocatoria de propuestas Data not available Régimen de financiación CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinador Regional Energy Agency of DODECANESE S.A. Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección ELEFTHERIAS SQUARE 1 85100 Rhodes Grecia Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos Participantes (3) Ordenar alfabéticamente Ordenar por aportación de la UE Ampliar todo Contraer todo Gerling Sustainable Development Project Gmbh Alemania Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección Kaiser -Wilhelm-Ring 7-9 50597 Cologne Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos Punto Energia Provincia di Sassari-Multi S.P.A Italia Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección Strada Provinciale la Crucca n.5 7100 Sassari Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos Regional Energy Agency of Crete Grecia Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección Kontourioti Square 7120 Heraklion Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos
