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creators_name: Mahmood, T.
creators_name: Naz, M.Y.
creators_name: Sulaiman, S.A.
creators_name: Jamil, Y.
creators_name: Shukrullah, S.
creators_name: Zahid, M.
creators_name: Inayat, M.
title: CFD Modeling and Experimental Validation of a Solar Still
ispublished: pub
keywords: Distillation; Distillation equipment; Earth (planet); Solar heating, Brackish water; Design parameters; Experimental validations; Simulation data; Solar distillation; Solar distillation system; Solar stills; Wall materials, Potable water
note: cited By 6; Conference of 2017 UTP-UMP Symposium on Energy Systems, SES 2017 ; Conference Date: 26 September 2017 Through 27 September 2017; Conference Code:131396
abstract: Earth is the densest planet of the solar system with total area of 510.072 million square Km. Over 71.68 of this area is covered with water leaving a scant area of 28.32 for human to inhabit. The fresh water accounts for only 2.5 of the total volume and the rest is the brackish water. Presently, the world is facing chief problem of lack of potable water. This issue can be addressed by converting brackish water into potable through a solar distillation process and solar still is specially assigned for this purpose. Efficiency of a solar still explicitly depends on its design parameters, such as wall material, chamber depth, width and slope of the zcondensing surface. This study was aimed at investigating the solar still parameters using CFD modeling and experimental validation. The simulation data of ANSYS-FLUENT was compared with actual experimental data. A close agreement among the simulated and experimental results was seen in the presented work. It reveals that ANSYS-FLUENT is a potent tool to analyse the efficiency of the new designs of the solar distillation systems. © The authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2017.
date: 2017
publisher: EDP Sciences
official_url: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85033238974&doi=10.1051%2fmatecconf%2f201713102010&partnerID=40&md5=d7575b2ffd61d3434f7fb0a993d16ae2
id_number: 10.1051/matecconf/201713102010
full_text_status: none
publication: MATEC Web of Conferences
volume: 131
refereed: TRUE
issn: 2261236X
citation:   Mahmood, T. and Naz, M.Y. and Sulaiman, S.A. and Jamil, Y. and Shukrullah, S. and Zahid, M. and Inayat, M.  (2017) CFD Modeling and Experimental Validation of a Solar Still.  In: UNSPECIFIED.