PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT OF WATER OUTPUT VIA LATENT HEAT STORAGE SYSTEM WITH SINGLE SLOPE SOLAR STILLS

Velumayil, Ramesh and Seikh, Asiful Hossain and Balasubramanian, Vedagiri and Kalam, Md. Abul and Ravishankar, Sathyamurthy and Venugopal, Jayaprakash and Chitra, Lakshmikanthan and Saravanakumar, Lakshmanasamy and Senthilkumar, T. S. (2023) PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT OF WATER OUTPUT VIA LATENT HEAT STORAGE SYSTEM WITH SINGLE SLOPE SOLAR STILLS. THERMAL SCIENCE, 27.0 (6B). pp. 4851-4860. ISSN 0354-9836

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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to design, build, and assess the performance of a latent heat storage system in tandem with a single slope solar still. Using a solar accumulator to transfer hot water to a shell and a spiral finned tube filled with 30 kg of paraffin wax - 1.2 wt.% of Al2O3 nanocomposites, latent heat was stored. To test the effect of the storage system's performance, two trials were conducted, with and without storage, under as similar of conditions as could be arranged. The proposed storage system design eliminates any potential issues with usage of paraffin wax as the storage system in conjunction with the solar still. An outcome indicated that daily fresh water output was enhanced by 4.63% when the solar still was used in conjunction with the storage system.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: solar desalination, latent heat storage system, finned tubes, solar still
Subjects: Engineering > Thermodynamics
Divisions: Engineering and Technology > Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technology, Chennai, India
Medicine > Aarupadai Veedu Medical College and Hospital, Puducherry, India
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Last Modified: 06 Feb 2026 07:15
URI: https://ir.vmrfdu.edu.in/id/eprint/7416

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