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Several designs of solar distillation system have been built over the past century. However, the development of an economical system with high productivity is a major challenge. Various researchers worked to improve the productivity of solar distillation system by improving the rate of evaporation and/or the rate of vapor condensation. In the current work, the evaporation rate is enhanced by basin modification and using a secondary heating medium. An inclined corrugated basin solar still is designed and fabricated and coupled with a parabolic trough collector. Experimental study was carried at Nagpur (21.14° N, 79.0882° E) during the months of April and May, and results indicate 13.58% increase in the thermal efficiency. Further, CFD analysis is carried out by using RNG (k − ε) turbulence model in ANSYS Fluent. The CFD results were found to be in good agreement with the experimental results, thus validating the CFD model to carry out any modifications in the future.
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Joshi, S., Tagde, S., Pingle, A., Bhave, N., Sathe, T. (2021). Performance Analysis of Corrugated Inclined Basin Solar Distillation System Coupled with Parabolic Trough Collector. In: Kalamkar, V., Monkova, K. (eds) Advances in Mechanical Engineering. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3639-7_2
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