Enhancement of the Evaporation and Condensation Processes of a Solar Still with an Ultrasound Cotton Tent and a Thermoelectric Cooling Chamber

Naseer T. Alwan; Ayad S. Ahmed; Milia H. Majeed; S. Shcheklein; Salam J. Yaqoob; Anand Nayyar; Yunyoung Nam; Mohamed Abouhawwash

doi:10.3390/electronics11020284

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Enhancement of the Evaporation and Condensation Processes of a Solar Still with an Ultrasound Cotton Tent and a Thermoelectric Cooling Chamber

Naseer T. Alwan Ayad S. Ahmed Milia H. Majeed S. Shcheklein

Salam J. Yaqoob

Anand Nayyar

Yunyoung Nam

Mohamed Abouhawwash

Electronics Vol. 11 No. 2 pp. 284 · MDPI AG

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Abstract

In this paper, an experimental investigation study was conducted to show the effect of enhancing the evaporation and condensation processes inside a modified solar still by placing ultrasonic humidifiers inside a cotton mesh tent in the basin water and by installing a cooling chamber with thermoelectric elements on top of the solar still. Various parameters were recorded every hour, such as temperatures at different points within the solar still, the weather conditions (e.g., solar irradiance intensity, ambient air temperature, and wind speed), the yield of distilled water, and thermal efficiency on 29 July 2021 at the Ural Federal University (Russia). The production cost of distilled water from modified and traditional solar stills was also estimated. The experimental results showed that the productivity of the modified solar still increased by 124% compared with the traditional solar still, and the highest thermal efficiency was recorded at 2:00 p.m. (approximately 95.8% and 35.6% for modified and traditional solar stills, respectively). Finally, the productivity cost of distillate water (1 L) was approximately 0.040 and 0.042 $/L for the modified and traditional solar stills, respectively. The current work has contributed to increasing solar still productivity by applying simple and new technologies with the lowest possible capital and operational costs.

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Published: Jan 17, 2022
Vol/Issue: 11(2)
Pages: 284
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Authors

N

Naseer T. Alwan

Department of Nuclear and Renewable Energy, Ural Federal University, 19 Mira St., 620002 Yekaterinburg, Russia; Power Mechanics Department, Kirkuk Technical College, Northern Technical University, Kirkuk 36001, Iraq

A

Ayad S. Ahmed

Department of Nuclear and Renewable Energy, Ural Federal University, 19 Mira St., 620002 Yekaterinburg, Russia; Department of Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineering, Al-Rafidain University College, Baghdad 10001, Iraq

M

Milia H. Majeed

Department of Nuclear and Renewable Energy, Ural Federal University, 19 Mira St., 620002 Yekaterinburg, Russia

S

S. Shcheklein

Department of Nuclear and Renewable Energy, Ural Federal University, 19 Mira St., 620002 Yekaterinburg, Russia

S

Salam J. Yaqoob

Department of Research and Education, Authority of the Popular Crowd, Baghdad 10001, Iraq

A

Anand Nayyar

Graduate School, Duy Tan University, Da Nang 550000, Vietnam; Faculty of Information Technology, Duy Tan University, Da Nang 550000, Vietnam

Y

Yunyoung Nam

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Soonchunhyang University, Asan 31538, Korea

M

Mohamed Abouhawwash

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt; Department of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering, College of Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA

Funding

Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology Award: P0012724

Cite This Article

Naseer T. Alwan, Ayad S. Ahmed, Milia H. Majeed, et al. (2022). Enhancement of the Evaporation and Condensation Processes of a Solar Still with an Ultrasound Cotton Tent and a Thermoelectric Cooling Chamber. Electronics, 11(2), 284. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11020284

Enhancement of the Evaporation and Condensation Processes of a Solar Still with an Ultrasound Cotton Tent and a Thermoelectric Cooling Chamber

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