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Performance Assessment of Improved Solar Still Design with Stepped-Corrugated Absorber Plate

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Intelligent Manufacturing and Energy Sustainability

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Conventional solar still owns poor efficiency and low distillate output, hence not found commercially popular for domestic and industrial applications. The present work demonstrates the improved design of solar still with stepped-corrugated absorber plate for higher energy efficiency and yield. During experimentation, the productivity of stepped-corrugated and conventional solar still is found as 2.50 kg/m2 per day and 0.90 kg/m2 per day, respectively. The energy efficiency of stepped-corrugated and conventional solar still is found as 33.33 and 18.67%, respectively. From this exertion, it is concluded that the stepped-corrugated still has better yield and efficiency as compared to the conventional still.

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Abbreviations

m :

Mass

h :

Specific enthalpy

T :

Temperature

η :

Efficiency

A :

Area

I(t) :

Solar irradiation

TDS:

Total dissolved solids

RE:

Renewable energy

e :

Evaporation

p :

Plate

fg :

Latent

th:

Thermal/energy

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, S. B. Jain Institute of Technology, Management and Research, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

    Aasawari Bhaisare, Unmesh Wasnik, Aniket Sakhare, Pawan Thakur, Akash Nimje, Abhishek Hiwarkar & Vikrant Katekar

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hyderabad Campus, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Hyderabad, India

    Sandip Deshmukh

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Bhaisare, A. et al. (2021). Performance Assessment of Improved Solar Still Design with Stepped-Corrugated Absorber Plate. In: Reddy, A., Marla, D., Favorskaya, M.N., Satapathy, S.C. (eds) Intelligent Manufacturing and Energy Sustainability. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 213. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4443-3_64

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