Year-round comparative study of three types of solar desalination units

Abu-Arabi, Mousa; Zurigat, Yousef H.

doi:10.1016/j.desal.2004.05.011

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“…This may be because the increase in brine depth tends to increase the solar radiation absorbed by the bases, which decreased the overall thermal capacity of the still. The result from the present work is coincident with that obtained by Singh and Tiwari [12] and Abu-Arabi and Zurigat [13].…”

Section: Effect Of Some Different Parameters On Solar Still Thermal Esupporting

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Improving the double slope solar still performance by using flat-plate solar collector and cooling glass cover

2015

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Section: Effect Of Some Different Parameters On Solar Still Thermal Esupporting

confidence: 95%

Improving the double slope solar still performance by using flat-plate solar collector and cooling glass cover

2015

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“…The effect of this transmittance variation on the year round performance has not been discussed so far [3,[13][14][15][16][17]. The year round performance of the still in a particular place is mainly affected by the variations in transmittance of the covers and solar irradiance on the covers.…”

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Single basin double slope solar still: Year round performance prediction for local climatic conditions at Southern India

Kulandaivel¹,

Karuppian²

2014

THERM SCI

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In this work, performance of a single basin double slope solar still has been studied theoretically and experimentally. The theoretical model is used to predict the year round performance of the still at the local climatic conditions for the year 2008. Average values of maximum and minimum atmospheric temperatures, wind velocities were taken from meteorological data for last five years. Radiation models were used to predict the global and diffused irradiances on the inclined covers. The time to time variations in transmittance of the cover were considered. The rate of production variation and the total production for first day of the every month had been calculated. The overall production of the still was higher during March, April, August, November, and December and it is around 4 L/day. The average production of the still was 2.1 L/day/m 2 . The economy of the still was also studied and the payback period of the still was three years.

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“…Their low thermal efficiency is due to the considerable shadow caused by the walls of the basin that tend to decrease the absorption of solar radiation that could have been used for water distillation process. In order to improve the performance of conventional solar stills, several other designs have been developed, such as the double-basin type [14], multi-basin [15,16], inverted trickle [17], multi-effect [18,19], regenerative [20], with reflectors [21], spherical [6], triangular [22] and pyramid type solar still [23,24]. Kalogirou [25] presented an excellent review on various types of passive and active solar stills.…”

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Design and performance of a transportable hemispherical solar still

Ismail

2009

Renewable Energy

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a b s t r a c tA simple transportable hemispherical solar still was designed and fabricated, and its performance was experimentally evaluated under outdoors of Dhahran climatic conditions. It was found that over the hours of experimental testing through daytime, the daily distilled water output from the still ranged from 2.8 to 5.7 l/m 2 day. The daily average efficiency of the still reached as high as 33% with a corresponding conversion ratio near 50%. It was also found that the average efficiency of the still decreased by 8% when the saline water depth increased by 50%.

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Year-round comparative study of three types of solar desalination units

Cited by 40 publications

References 11 publications

Improving the double slope solar still performance by using flat-plate solar collector and cooling glass cover

Improving the double slope solar still performance by using flat-plate solar collector and cooling glass cover

Single basin double slope solar still: Year round performance prediction for local climatic conditions at Southern India

Design and performance of a transportable hemispherical solar still

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