A novel reduced graphene oxide based absorber for augmenting the water yield and thermal performance of solar desalination unit

Amrit Kumar Thakur; Ravishankar Sathyamurthy; Swellam W. Sharshir; Abd Elnaby Kabeel; Mohammad Shamsuddin Ahmed; Jang Yeon Hwang

doi:10.1016/j.matlet.2020.128867

A novel reduced graphene oxide based absorber for augmenting the water yield and thermal performance of solar desalination unit

Amrit Kumar Thakur^*
, Ravishankar Sathyamurthy
, Swellam W. Sharshir
, Abd Elnaby Kabeel
, Mohammad Shamsuddin Ahmed
, Jang Yeon Hwang

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The absorber plate of a single basin solar still (SS) is coated by black paint doped with reduced graphene oxide (RGO) nanosheet having a mass fraction of 4–12 wt%, to augment the water yield. The RGO was prepared through hydrothermal treatment to have a specific surface area and mean pore diameter of 167.72 m².g⁻¹ and 22 nm, respectively. The utilization of 12 wt% RGO doped with black paint-coated absorber enhances the water and absorber temperature by 14.7 and 15.7%, respectively, as compared to only black paint-coated absorber. The accumulated water yield of the SS with (12 wt%) and without the RGO coating was found to be 5.59 and 3.96 L/m²/day, respectively.

Original language	English
Article number	128867
Journal	Materials Letters
Volume	286
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2020.128867
State	Published - 1 Mar 2021
Externally published	Yes

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UN SDGs

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SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation
SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Keywords

Absorber coating
Freshwater yield
Reduced graphene oxide
Thermal properties

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General Materials Science
Condensed Matter Physics
Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering

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