Mathematical Modelling and Analysis of Hybrid Solar Desalination System Using Evacuated Tube Collector (ETC) and Compound Parabolic Concentrator (CPC)

Abstract

Solar desalination system is one of the technologies which converts hard water to soft water which even is useful for drinking purpose. This paper reports the mathematical modelling of hard water desalination using hybrid (ETC + CPC) solar desalination system. This model considers various parameters such as intensity of solar radiation, atmospheric temperature, wind speed, material for compound parabolic concentrator, flow rate, concentration ratio and gives idea for system performance in terms of soft water production. Experiments were conducted at Pune City which is located in western region of India and accordingly environmental parameter are considered accordingly. It is observed that average percentage error values calculated using this proposed model to quantity soft water in comparison with actual experimental results are in the range of 3% to 5%. Hence, it is concluded that numerically calculated quantity of soft water per bottle has good agreement with analytical calculation with developed thermal model. It is evident that developed model predicts the behaviour of the actual system.

The Shading Effect on Photovoltaic Generator (GPV) Based on Reverse Osmosis (RO) Desalination System in Algeria

“…Many simulation studies of desalination devices used with RES have been conducted. Independent reverse osmosis desalination units powered by photovoltaic and/or wind turbines and sustained by batteries have been the research theme of several works [23,24].…”