Open AccessDesign and Fabrication of Solar Parabolic Collector for Water Distillation
Author(s) -
Pinkal Choksi,
Hitesh Bhargav,
Upendra V. Chaudhari
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
kalpa publications in engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
ISSN - 2515-1770
DOI - 10.29007/mq4d
Subject(s) - parabolic trough , environmental science , distillation , population , hydrology (agriculture) , meteorology , geology , geography , chemistry , thermal , demography , geotechnical engineering , organic chemistry , sociology
From geographic data around the planet is covered around 70% with water, but out of total, only around 2% is of fresh water, and out of total fresh water, about 1.6% is not used because it is located in polar ice caps and glaciers. So total of the earth’s water, 98% is saltwater, 1.6% is in polar ice caps and glaciers, and 0.4% is drinkable water, which is available from underground wells or rivers. The survey shows that around 1 billion people, or 14.7% of the total earth’s population, still do not have pure safe drinkable water. So here an effort is made to design a water distillation system with use of the solar parabolic trough that can purify water from any source of water and convert it in to drinkable form. A solar parabolic trough collector is used to convert water into steam and later condense the steam to get pure water.