ANSYS CFD and experimental comparison of various parameters of a solar still

ABSTRACT

A solar still is a very simple device to convert brackish water into drinkable water. It depends on various parameters like inner glass cover temperature, outer glass cover temperature, vapour temperature, basin water temperature, etc. All such parameters are directly proportional to the distillate output. Hence, to compare parameters, a model is developed in ANSYS CFD. The simulation results of ANSYS CFD are compared with actual experimental results. Results show that there was good agreement with experimental results. Hourly distillate output and cumulative distillate output were also obtained by simulation results and good agreement was found with experimental results. At last, it is obvious that ANSYS CFD simulation results are a very important tool to analyse the purpose of a solar still.

KEYWORDS:

• Solar still
• ANSYS CFD
• distillate output
• cumulative distillate output

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.