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Effect of water mass on triangular pyramid solar still using phase change material as storage medium

  • Ravishankar Sathyamurthy*
  • , P. K. Nagarajan
  • , J. Subramani
  • , D. Vijayakumar
  • , K. Mohammed Ashraf Ali
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In this paper the effect of water mass on the performance of triangular pyramid solar still with and without latent heat energy storage was experimentally investigated. For comparing the productivity of solar still with and without LHTESS a solar still is designed, fabricated. Experiments are conducted in hot and humid climate of Chennai, India. It is found that there is an increase of production of fresh water with decrease in water mass. There is an increase of about 35% in production of fresh water with LHTESS than that of solar still without LHTESS. Also it was found that during the off shine period the fresh water produced from the still is higher compared to higher water mass. The solar still with and without LHTESS were found to be 5.5 L/m2day and 3.5 L/m2day.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2224-2228
Number of pages5
JournalEnergy Procedia
Volume61
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

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© 2014 Published by Elsevier Ltd.

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

  • Efficiency
  • Enhancement
  • Hourly variation
  • Phase change material

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Energy

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