IJFANS International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences

ISSN PRINT 2319 1775 Online 2320-7876

Thermal performance of a multi-wick solar still integrated to an air cooler.

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Aneesh Somwanshi ,Abhilash Dahayat1, Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Kamal Pradhan

Abstract

This work proposes the use of an air cooler in conjunction with a multi-wick solar still. The air cooler's cooled tank water is flown over the multiple wick solar still's cover. This contributes to raising the overall temperature differential between the wick water and the glass cover, which raises the amount of distillate the solar still produces. The cover's outgoing water is gathered and then cycled back into the cooler tank. In this study, a mathematical model of the suggested system has been created. The thermal performance of the suggested system has been calculated numerically for a summer day and a winter day in Jodhpur, India (26.2389° N, 73.0243° E). The suggested method produces 7.082 kg/m2 of distillate in a summer day and 2.926kg/m2 in a winter day. The daily output increased somewhat as the water flow rate over the cover was increased; for example, output increased by 1.2% when the flow rate increased from 0.010 kg/s to 0.070 kg/s. The suggested multi-wick solar still produced 19.95% more in summer and 29.98% more in winter when compared to a single slope solar still integrated with a cooler. The suggested still has a summer thermal efficiency of 51.85% and a winter thermal efficiency of 38.03%, respectively.

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