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Structure Design and Parameter Computation of a Seawater Desalination System with Vertical Axis Wind Turbine

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Advanced Computational Methods in Energy, Power, Electric Vehicles, and Their Integration (ICSEE 2017, LSMS 2017)

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This paper proposes a method to firstly convert wind energy into thermal energy by a vertical axis wind turbine and then use thermal energy to evaporate seawater for fresh water generation. The working principle and structure characteristics of the S type vertical axis wind turbine,liquid-stirring heater and seawater evaporation chamber are described. Mathematical calculation of bucket diameter and other parameters of the liquid-stirring heater are carried out according to the driving torque of wind turbine. Evaporating chamber capacity for seawater desalination is determined according to the liquid-stirring heater. These calculation models are introduced including power, torque, tip speed ratio, height and diameter of wind turbine; power, torque, rotating speed, blades diameter and other structural parameters of liquid-stirring heater; diameter, height of evaporator chamber. Generated fresh water from the seawater desalination system under rated wind speed is estimated at 239.1 g/h, which verify the feasibility of this kind of wind-powered seawater desalination method.

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Hu, Y., Li, K., Jin, H. (2017). Structure Design and Parameter Computation of a Seawater Desalination System with Vertical Axis Wind Turbine. In: Li, K., Xue, Y., Cui, S., Niu, Q., Yang, Z., Luk, P. (eds) Advanced Computational Methods in Energy, Power, Electric Vehicles, and Their Integration. ICSEE LSMS 2017 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 763. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6364-0_5

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