Annual Yield, Energy and Economic Analysis of Tubular Solar Stills with Phase Change Material and Nano-enhanced Phase Change Material

  • Muthu Manokar Athikesavan*
  • , Fausto Pedro García Márquez
  • , Mohamed Thalib Mohamed Rafeek
  • , Ravishankar Sathyamurthy
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This manuscript presented the annual yield, energy and economic analysis of the Tubular Solar Stills (TSS). Three different TSS such as conventional TSS (CTSS), modified TSS with Phase Change Material (MTSS-PCM) and modified TSS with nano-enhanced PCM (MTSS-NPCM). The annual yield output from the CTSS, MTSS-PCM and MTSS-PNCM were 1100.8, 1536 and 2020.4 kg, respectively. The annual yield from the MTSS-PCM and MTSS-NPCM are 28.33 and 45.57% higher when compared to the CTSS. Also, the monthly energy efficiency of the CTSS, MTSS-PCM and MTSS-PNCM were 27.11, 37.83 and 49.81%, respectively. As the performance of the MTSS-NPCM was enhanced, the cost of freshwater yield obtained was also low in contrast to the other two types of stills. At a selling price of Rs 5 for the freshwater, the CTSS needed a payback period of 7.6 months, while the MTSS-PCM and MTSS-NPCM needed 6.6 and 5.3 months, respectively.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages463-472
Number of pages10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameLecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies
Volume79
ISSN (Print)2367-4512
ISSN (Electronic)2367-4520

Bibliographical note

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© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
    SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Keywords

  • Cost analysis
  • Distilled water
  • Economic analysis
  • Nano-material
  • Tubular solar still

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems
  • Media Technology
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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