5TH International Congress on Technology - Engineering & Science - Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia (2018-02-01)

Investigation And Performance Analysis Of Innovative Solar Still For Small Family Potable Water Requirement

Drinkable water is one of the most essential requirements for humanity, and the rise in human population growth has to lead to water pollution to the river and underground water reservoirs. To overcome the demand concerning about potable water, many researchers from all around the world have tried various new technologies. Solar distillation is the simple and cost-effective technology for changing of contaminated water to potable water. In this present research work, efforts are applied to make solar still with enhanced distillate output with the help of attachment of Evacuated tubes. Hence, triple effect solar still has been fabricated and tested to see its performance. Experiments on the present solar still have been carried out for three days in climate conditions of Patan, Gujarat. From the research work, it has been evaluated that, the increment of distillate water production and energy payback time found 700% and 72 days only. It has also found that the present solar still is capable of producing 20 litres of distillate production of water from saline or brackish water. Hence, it is the best solar still for potable water requirement.
Hitesh Panchal, Hitesh Bhargav, Kamlesh Pansal