Open AccessEfficient desalination by layered heating of saline water
Author(s) -
Ronak H Virani,
Binita Patel,
Hasmukh G. Katariya
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/2007/1/012010
Subject(s) - desalination , renewable energy , solar energy , environmental science , parabolic trough , solar desalination , solar still , saline water , environmental engineering , process engineering , materials science , salinity , engineering , geology , chemistry , electrical engineering , biochemistry , oceanography , membrane
Thin layer heating technology for desalination is one of the topics that is catching eye of many researchers recently. The sun is a very good renewable energy source that can solve many human being’s problems such as water scarcity. Solar energy can be utilized for water desalination. Nowadays, parabolic trough collector and dish reflector and other optical concentrators are used to concentrate the solar radiation to get more power. They are complex and costly. Efficiency of basin type solar still and other conventional solar still is decreases as we increase water quantity, due to the heat loss to water. Due to this reason need of solar desalination devices that use localized heating of a thin layer of water. In the past few years, significant research is done for the developing thin layer heating desalination. In this paper, basin type solar still is discussed, properties of wood and titanium dioxide materials for substrate and absorber have been discussed and results carried out by experimental performance is discussed. This paper is concerned with effects of change in radiation, effects of change in water depth in basin and effects of change in salinity of water.