Augmentation of a solar still distillate yield via absorber plate coated with black nanoparticles

By A. Kabeel, Z. Omara, F. Essa, A. S. Abdullah, T. Arunkumar, Ravishankar Sathyamurthy. 2017

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Abstract Effects of utilizing nanomaterial on the solar still productivity investigated experimentally. Cuprous oxides (CuO) chosen as a nanoparticles material. The nanoparticles added to the black paint of the solar still walls to enhance the solar still performance. Experiments conducted with cuprous oxide nanoparticles weight concentrations ranged from 10% to 40%. It is found that adding nanoparticles to paint increase heat transfer rate and saline water temperature. Solar still productivity of the proposed system is higher than that for the conventional still. Results acquired that utilizing CuO nanoparticles boosted the distillate by 16% and 25% as compared to the conventional solar still (CSS) at weight fraction concentration of 10% and 40%, respectively. Payback period of the distillation system for the modified still using CuO nanomaterials is about 96 days, at weight fraction 10%, which is considerable as compared by 89 days for CSS.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

1. Omid Mahian
2. Saman Rashidi
3. Nader Karimi
4. J. Abolfazli Esfahani
5. S. Iniyan
6. P. Davies
7. L. Suganthi
8. D. Dsilva Winfred Rufuss

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• A concise review on the role of nanoparticles upon the productivity of solar desalination systems (2018, background): “[62] coated the absorber plate of solar still the black Cu2O nanoparticles.”
• Effects of nanoparticle-enhanced phase change material (NPCM) on solar still productivity (2018, background): “From the 282 literature, it was inferred that the volume of saline feed water must be less than that of the 283 volume of PCM (El-Sebaii et al., 2009; A. E. Kabeel et al., 2017; Kabeel and El-Agouz, 284 2011; Somanchi et al., 2015), and hence 9 liters of saline water was fed into the still.”