Design and fabrication of single slope solar still using metal matrix structure as energy storage
| Autor: | Dhandapani Sathish, R. Tamilselvan, M. Veeramanikandan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
010302 applied physics
Fabrication business.industry 02 engineering and technology Sensible heat 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Solar still Solar energy Saline water 01 natural sciences Energy storage Metal Matrix (mathematics) visual_art 0103 physical sciences visual_art.visual_art_medium Environmental science 0210 nano-technology business Process engineering |
| Zdroj: | Materials Today: Proceedings. 27:1-5 |
| ISSN: | 2214-7853 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.matpr.2019.07.709 |
| Popis: | Solar still acts as one of the most economical ways of converting saline water into fresh water. In this article the performance of conventional solar still is compared with that of modified solar still in which metal matrix structures are used as a sensible heat storage media, thus it saves the excess energy produced during day time and utilizes the sensible heat energy from the metal matrix structure at the evening or night time. The metal matrix structure is immersed in the middle of the basin where saline water is stagnates. In the solar still, during less hours of solar intensity, the sensitive heat was released from the metal matrix. Attempts are made to use the maximum amount of solar energy incident and to use the sensible heat accumulated in the structures of the metal matrix structures. Its productivity and efficiency are compared to the traditional still under the similar climatic circumstance. It is observed that average still productivity and efficiency in the modernized still with metal matrix increases significantly with less cost for this alteration because it is very cheap and effortless to access. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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