A Novel Design for a Solar Still Augmented With an Evacuated Tube Collector: An Experimental Study

  • Abbas Sahi Shareef, Hayder Jabbar Kurji, Hassan Abdulameer Matrood

Abstract

The present paper introduces an experimental test of a solar distiller performance with a novel glass cover (five-faces) attached with an evacuated tube collector. The paper includes studying the effect of the new form of the still cover, radiation intensity, ambient temperature, and mass flow rate on the daily productivity of the distillation system. The results showed that the increase in the solar radiation intensity and the ambient temperature leads to an increase of the amount of daily production. While, increasing the mass flow rate reduces the production quantity of the distiller. The results also indicated that the new shape of the distiller cover improves the daily output. Using the evacuated tube collector also enhances it. Where the maximum amount of the daily production of the distillation system, with these modifications, reached 4.2 litters/day. This at a mass flow rate of 1 liter/min  and for an operating period between (8 am - 6 pm).

Published
2021-10-27
How to Cite
Abbas Sahi Shareef, Hayder Jabbar Kurji, Hassan Abdulameer Matrood. (2021). A Novel Design for a Solar Still Augmented With an Evacuated Tube Collector: An Experimental Study. Design Engineering, 7237-7246. Retrieved from http://www.thedesignengineering.com/index.php/DE/article/view/5732
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