EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF A SOLAR STILL WITH SCREENS IN BASIN
- 1 February 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in International Journal of Solar Energy
- Vol. 21 (4), 257-266
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01425910108914374
Abstract
The performance of a solar still with different size screens placed in the basin was studied experimentally. The increase in daily production of the still was 11% to 103% compared with an identical still without screens under the same conditions. The effects of screen color, position, number of screens, side wall color, and dye in the basin water were also investigated. An attempt to simulate the new configuration with a simple extension of previous mathematical models for a still without a screen was not successful. This indicates that the lumped formulation used in the analysis of a simple solar still can not be extended to the configuration at hand.Keywords
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