Performance of pyramid-shaped solar still: Experimental study

Taamneh, Yazan; Taamneh, Madhar

doi:10.1016/j.desal.2012.01.026

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“…Also it is found that maximum productivity of stepped still is achieved at a tray depth 5 mm and tray width 120 mm, which is about 57.3% higher than that of the conventional still. In this case the daily efficiency and estimated cost of 1 l of distillate for stepped and conventional solar stills are approximately 53%-0.039$ and 33.5%-0.049 $ respectively [14].…”

Section: Performance Of Pyramid-shaped Solar Stillmentioning

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Research and Development in the Designs of Solar Stills: A Review

Choudhary¹

2017

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Research and Development in the Designs of Solar Stills: A Review

Choudhary¹

2017

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“…Also, the effect shows that the yield improved by 1.25 times than without cooling. There is no significant increase in the (Suneja and Tiwari, 1999a, b) decreasing when the depth of water Bottom absorber plate has to be regularly Investment cost is low when compared (Tiwari and Suneja, 1998; cleaned to other solar still Multi basin-(double basin still) Efficiency of still is 16 % (Cappelletti, 2002) Life of the still is less since a plastic material Taamneh and Taamneh, 2012; to free convection solar still wick to be carried out in order to avoid salt performance has to be studied. Nagarajan et al, 2014a; deposition and smelling effect to maintain the This may increase the productivity Sathyamurthy et al, 2014a, b) quality of fresh water produced…”

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“…Pyramid single basin solar still: Taamneh and Taamneh (2012) experimentally studied a pyramid solar still under forced and natural convection. Experiments are carried out in Tafila city (Jordan) and performance of solar still with and without fan show that the reduced temperature of glass increases the condensation with larger temperature difference.…”

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A Review of Different Solar Still for Augmenting Fresh Water Yield

Sathyamurt¹,

Samuel²,

Nagarajan³

et al. 2015

J. of Environmental Science and Technology

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Due to the greater growth of population and industrial developments especially from the early 20th century, people living in remote villages suffer with shortage of drinking water. People living in urban and rural areas depend on surface and ground water sources, where these sources are majorly polluted by industrial waste. The use of reverse osmosis technique and other conventional technique appears to be a costlier method and requires a very large land mass. An economical method of converting the saline water to portable water is by using solar energy. Solar still desalination is one method of converting saline water into potable water by evaporation and condensation. Many researchers carried out extensive studies on the solar still desalination technique and this paper communicates a detailed review about the existing desalination technique by solar energy.Key words: Solar still, economic, water source, energy, developments INTRODUCTIONEarth is almost covered with water of which 97% salt water, 2% trapped in the form of glaciers and polar ice caps and only 1% of water for drinking purpose for our survival. Plants, animals and human being need water to avoid dehydration, since dehydration kills faster than starvation. Consumption of unhygienic water cause health problems and even death and for a small scale production of fresh water in urban and rural areas solar desalination is the best method (Kumar et al., 2015;Arunkumar et al., 2015). As ground and surface water sources are depleting by continuous usage the need of drinking water is more. Figure 1 shows the major water sources of the world.There is a great need of fresh water for humans, as they are the important phenomenon in dayto-day life. Due to urbanization, industrialization and increase in population growth the need of drinking water is higher. The possible ways of getting pure water is from rivers, lakes, wells, rains etc, as these kinds must be purified consuming. The purification of water involves the removal of dissolved or microbes which can easily spread water borne diseases. The insoluble substances are removed by sand filtration and the microbes are killed through chlorination and by boiling. Solar desalination does all the three function. The another method of conversion of backrish water into purified water for drinking purpose is using membrane or phase change process of desalination. Earlier these process uses boiler to generate power or heat to drive the membrane process to get fresh water. In the current context, solar energy is used to drive these techniques using solar photo

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“…The nned base solar and corrugated solar stills recorded a maximum increase of productivity by about 40% and 21%, respectively. A pyramid-shaped solar still was studied by Taamneh and Madhar [6]. They added a fan operating with photovoltaic solar panels that will create a forced convection resulting in a high evaporation rate and increasing the productivity.…”

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Performance study of an innovative heating technique for a modified solar still

2017

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Abstract. An experimental comparison of water productivity between a conventional single slope, solar still, and a modi ed one is introduced in this work. The modi ed solar still is incorporated with a new heating technique on the saline water surface using nned cover with holes. These ns are used to increase the heat transfer area between the cover and saline water; meanwhile, holes are used to allow evaporated water to go through. These experiments are held under the outdoor conditions of Tanta, Egypt. The performance of the two solar stills has been tested at a water depth of 0.05 m and a quantity of saline water of 50 L. The results indicated that the productivity of water per square meter per day for the modi ed design still is higher than the conventional still by about 30.6%.

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Performance of pyramid-shaped solar still: Experimental study

Cited by 185 publications

References 10 publications

Research and Development in the Designs of Solar Stills: A Review

Research and Development in the Designs of Solar Stills: A Review

A Review of Different Solar Still for Augmenting Fresh Water Yield

Performance study of an innovative heating technique for a modified solar still

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