Effect of Nanofluid in Single Slope Double Basin Solar Still

Energy Engineering

Clean water is a basic human necessity and without water life will be impossible. As the available fresh water is fixed on earth and its demand is increasing day by day due to increasing population and rapidly increasing of industry, hence there is an essential and earnest need to get fresh water from the saline/brackish water present on or inside the earth. One of the method uses for getting fresh water from saline water is solar desalination. This method is simple and economical than other methods. But the distilled of the single basin solar still have very low yield of water. Utilizing nanofluid as an absorber fluid is an effective approach to enhance heat transfer in solar still device. Also double effect with double basin will increase productivity of still by utilizing latent heat of condensation. This experiment compares the double basin-double effect single slope solar still with and without water nanofluid. Two experimental stills of the same basin area will be fabricated and will be tested the performance of double basin-double effect single slope solar still with and without nanofluid simultaneously.

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