Experimental investigation on a semi-circular trough-absorber solar still with baffles for fresh water production

Sathyamurthy, Ravishankar; Nagarajan, P.K.; El-Agouz, S.A.; Jaiganesh, V.; Khanna, Pallavi

doi:10.1016/j.enconman.2015.03.052

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“…Due to its lesser yield, active type desalination has been developed by various researchers in addition to enhancement techniques like integrating, photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T), flat plate collectors (FPC), evacuated tube collectors (ETC), thermoelectric coolers (TEC), heat pipes (HP), phase change materials (PCM), sensible heat energy materials, etc. This enhances the freshwater productivity . Kabeel et al analyzed the performance of conventional basin type solar still with coating the absorber with black paint doped with nanoparticle for augmenting the yield.…”

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Experimental study on conventional solar still integrated with inclined solar still under different water depth

Kabeel

Taamneh

Sathyamurthy

et al. 2018

Heat Trans. Asian Res.

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This study primarily focuses on comparative experimental analysis on standalone conventional solar still (CSS), inclined solar still (ISS), and integrated conventional and inclined solar still (CSS‐ISS) for different parameters that affect the freshwater yield. For enhancing the freshwater yield only a few studies are available on still‐still integration. The present novel study provides a greater improvement in improving the freshwater yield by integrating ISS with CSS. This experimental work mainly concentrates on the importance of water depth (d w) and mass flow rate of water ( m w) in the solar still. Water depth inside the conventional still varied from 0.02 to 0.06 m whereas, water is constantly flown with a mass flow rate of 8.33 kg/hour in an ISS with baffles. The experimental result shows that the accumulated freshwater yield from CSS‐ISS, ISS, and CSS were 6.2, 5.04, and 4.24 kg, respectively. CSS‐ISS and ISS produced 46.23% and 18.87% higher productivity than the CSS. From the experimental investigation, it is also identified that the water temperature is significantly improved by 20% using integration as compared with CSS without integration under the same water depth of d w = 0.02 m. The overall improvement in yield was higher in the case of CSS‐ISS. The deviations between experimental and theoretical values of yield from the conventional and modified solar still were in the range of ±7%.

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Experimental study on conventional solar still integrated with inclined solar still under different water depth

Kabeel

Taamneh

Sathyamurthy

et al. 2018

Heat Trans. Asian Res.

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“…Source of energy from sun is mostly environmental friendly and non polluting clean energy source. Basin type still is the most aged process of producing fresh water [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. The fresh water conversion rate from the solar still system is predominantly depends on the solar intensity.…”

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Theoretical Analysis of Continuous Heat Extraction from Absorber of Solar Still for Improving the Productivity

El‐Agouz

Kabeel

Subramani³

et al. 2018

Period. Polytech. Mech. Eng.

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IntroductionGreater growth of population and industries results in shortage of fresh water. Earth is almost covered with a larger water source and smaller land mass. People used to drink large amount of water for their thirsty need. Water available in the form of rivers, lakes cannot be consumed directly without pre-processing, as these need some purification process in order to remove bacteria and undissolved salts. In early days the possible method of getting pure water is heating the brackish water and condensing them back to get fresh water by burning fossil fuels. Due to the exhaustion of coal, crude oil and increases in global warming, the evolution of using renewable energy for getting fresh water evolved during the late 20th century. One of the best energy source applied is solar energy. Source of energy from sun is mostly environmental friendly and non polluting clean energy source. Basin type still is the most aged process of producing fresh water [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. The fresh water conversion rate from the solar still system is predominantly depends on the solar intensity. The basin water temperature increases continuously due to heat energy emitted from the sun in the form of solar intensity. After reaching the boiling point of water, the water evaporates and it condenses on the solar still condenser cover. The various techniques employed in solar still, to raise the temperature of water and hence increases the productivity was studied from the detailed literatures reviews of Ravishankar et al. [11], Kabeel et al. [12] and Manokar et al. [13][14][15]. From the detailed literature studies it is clear that water temperature can be improved by either feeding waste warm water or pre heat the water by incorporating the different solar collectors or concentrators. Gupta et al. [16] theoretically analyzed the intermittent flow of waste warm water to the double basin solar still similarly same analyses was done by Yadav et al. in single basin solar still [17]. Sodha et al. [18] and Tiwari et al. [19] experimentally investigated the performance of solar still utilizing the warm water from the industry. Tiwari et al. [20] keep up a higher temperature difference between the water and collector cover by increasing the water temperature by flowing waste hot water in the basin and decrease the collector cover temperature by flowing the cold water above the surface of collector cover. This would results in increase in both evaporation and condensation

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“…Water obtained from rivers and lakes cannot be used directly for drinking purpose as these waters are getting polluted by domestic, municipal and industrial waste. Hence, water from these sources must be treated so that impurities like microorganisms and other harmful substances can be removed [6]- [10].…”

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Improving the yield of freshwater and exergy analysis of conventional solar still with different nanofluids

Madhu¹,

Subramanian²,

Nagarajan³

et al. 2017

FME Transaction

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Experimental investigation on a semi-circular trough-absorber solar still with baffles for fresh water production

Cited by 85 publications

References 17 publications

Experimental study on conventional solar still integrated with inclined solar still under different water depth

Experimental study on conventional solar still integrated with inclined solar still under different water depth

Theoretical Analysis of Continuous Heat Extraction from Absorber of Solar Still for Improving the Productivity

Improving the yield of freshwater and exergy analysis of conventional solar still with different nanofluids

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