The energy management and planning of the proposed Water-Energy nexus concept by considering tidal turbine and INVELOX as novel options
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The energy and water crisis due to the rapidly growing population and developing societies caused countries and governments to think about novel technologies and ways to respond to this issue. Therefore, this paper is about energy planning and management of the proposed concept for supplying water and energy simultaneously. This approach helps to overcome and supply the dramatic energy need of desalination and distribution systems. This article aims to supply the demands and minimize the total cost at the same time. Various renewable and non-renewable energy resources such as tidal turbines, INVELOX turbines, CHP, micro-turbines, and other elements are utilized in the proposed planning. Real weather conditions are considered to compute the output power of wind and tidal turbines. The presented water-energy nexus structure is modeled as a MINLP concept and solved in GAMS software using various solvers to illustrate the reliability of the optimization answers. The final results show a high improvement in the total cost reduction.