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Productivity enhancement of solar still by PCM and Nanoparticles miscellaneous basin absorbing materials

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DESALINATION
Volume 433, Issue -, Pages 186-198

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2017.11.045

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Basin solar still; Phase change materials; Nanoparticles; Improve efficiency

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Belongings of incorporating (Al2O3) Nanoparticles of wick materials in the solar still of a PCM charity in the basin for TES organization have been probed in this study. It is an innovative organization of techniques by a drip button to decant saline water drop by drop on absorbing materials in the basin. It (summer and winter) has been established with the dripping of saline water on altered absorbing materials like CW, FWCW, JW and FWJW as the basin liner. Diurnal variations of drip button temperature, T-g, T-b, T-w and mass of the output have been verified. Vitality equilibrium equations for the moist air inside the still, glass cover and wick material have been solved to get the analytical expressions for the instantaneous efficiency of the anticipated structure. The numerical calculations have been authenticated with the experimental annotations for a (S & W) few typical days from January 2016 to January 2017. With the heat extraction performance, the yield of wick materials with a single basin solar still by a PCM and Nanoparticles (S & W) as FWCW is 7.460 & 4.120 kg/m(2) day, respectively. The theoretical and experimental results have been substantiated a good covenant structure with the tiniest inaccuracy.

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