Performance of single slope solar still for socio-economic development in coast locations in India

Abstract

In the present work, a single slope wick-type solar still has been designed and fabricated with optimum design and climatic parameters of Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India. Experiments have been carried out with the proposed still in Coimbatore's local climatic conditions (11°N Latitude) and have shown better performance for the production of distillate yield. Since the coastal areas are diversified with various ecosystems, the proposed still has been simulated in two locations in east (Chennai and Visakhapatnam) and west coast areas (Trivandrum and Mumbai) distillate yield. The study results revealed the still in the coastal areas with better performance with the same product in Coimbatore.

KEYWORDS:

• Solar still
• coastal area
• distillate yield
• simulation modelling

Acknowledgement

I would say thanks a lot to Department of Science and Technology (DST, Delhi), Government of India for the award of DST-FIRST Level-1(SR/FST/ PS-1/2018/35) scheme to the Department of Physics. Appreciations are grateful to the KLEF offering infrastructure, facilities, basic found (Perform basic instruments) and support to the current investigation.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).