Hemispherical Solar Distiller Performance Utilizing Hybrid Storage Media, Paraffin Wax with Nanoparticles: An Experimental Study

Ravishankar Sathyamurthy; Wael M. El-Maghlany; Mohammed El Hadi Attia; A. E. Kabeel; Mohamed Abdelgaied; Moataz M. Abdel-Aziz; A. S. Abdullah; S. Vasanthaseelan

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Hemispherical Solar Distiller Performance Utilizing Hybrid Storage Media, Paraffin Wax with Nanoparticles: An Experimental Study

Ravishankar Sathyamurthy^*, Wael M. El-Maghlany, Mohammed El Hadi Attia, A. E. Kabeel, Mohamed Abdelgaied, Moataz M. Abdel-Aziz, A. S. Abdullah, S. Vasanthaseelan

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The traditional method of obtaining fresh water for drinking is by burning fossil fuels, emitting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. However, renewable energy is gaining more traction since it is available free of cost for producing fresh water. In this study, Al₂O₃ nanoparticles were distributed in a phase change material (paraffin wax) that had been fixed at a hemispherical distiller water basin. Three scenarios with three hemispherical distillers were examined. A conventional hemispherical distiller (CHD), a conventional hemispherical distiller with paraffin wax as a phase change material (CHD-PCM), and a conventional hemispherical distiller with PCM partially filled with Al₂O₃ nanoparticles (CHD-N-PCM) were tested under the same climatic conditions. The experimental results showed that CHD gave a daily yield of 4.85 L/m²/day, while CHD-PCM increased the yield to up to 6.2 L/m²/day with a 27.84% daily yield enhancement. The addition of Al₂O₃ nanoparticles to paraffin wax CHD-N-PCM improved hemispherical distillate yield up to 8.3 L/m²/day with a 71.13% increase over CHD yield.

Original language	English
Article number	8988
Journal	Molecules
Volume	27
Issue number	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27248988
State	Published - Dec 2022

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Keywords

AlO nanoparticles
PCM
desalination
efficiency
fresh water
hemispherical solar distiller
thermal conductivity

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Analytical Chemistry
Chemistry (miscellaneous)
Molecular Medicine
Pharmaceutical Science
Drug Discovery
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Organic Chemistry

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