THE PERFORMANCE OF MULTI-EFFECT ACTIVE DISTILLATION SYSTEM

Abstract

In this communication, a transient analysis of a multi-effect active distillation system has been presented by taking the design and climatic parameters into account. An analytical expressions for the various water and glass temperatures, hourly yield and instantaneous thermal efficiency have been derived. The proposed system can also be used for second and third stage distillation. Numerical computation predicts that the daily yield increases with increase of number of effects (evaporating and condensing surfaces).

KEY WORDS:

• KEY WORDS: Solar distillation
• Purification of water and solar energy

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Notes on contributors

PANKAJ SAXENA

DNES, Regional Office, Lucknow (U.P.).

S. N. RAI

Physics Department, MMH College, Ghaziabad (U.P.).