Comparative study of double-slope solar still, hemispherical solar still, and tubular solar still using Al2O3/water film cooling: a numerical study and CO2 mitigation analysis [Erratum: September 2022, v.29(43), p.65370]
2022
Shoeibi, Shahin | Ali Agha Mirjalily, Seyed | Kargarsharifabad, Hadi | Panchal, Hitesh | Dhivagar, Ramasamy
Solar still, as one of the important devices for generating water using renewable energy, has been widely used in arid as well as coastal areas where access to fresh water is limited. This paper uses CFD simulation to compare double-slope solar still, hemispherical solar still, and tubular solar still using nanofluid film cooling. Al₂O₃-water nanofluids with a concentration of 0.1% are used due to facilitate sunlight penetration into the absorber plate inside the solar desalination. It is assumed the flow is steady, laminar, and air is an ideal and incompressible gas. The simple algorithm is considered to calculate the relationship between pressure and velocity and to separate the transfer and pressure interpolation terms from the appropriate upstream designs. Also, the economic, exergoeconomic, and CO₂ mitigation parameters of various solar stills were investigated. The study revealed that the water productivity of double-slope solar desalination using nanofluids film cooling is improved by about 4.8% compared with tubular solar desalination with nanofluid film cooling. Also, the lowest CPL of 0.0362 $/L was obtained in the double-slope solar desalination using nanofluid film cooling. The net CO₂ mitigation of 14.08 tons, 13.72 tons, and 13.44 tons was obtained for double-slope solar desalination, hemispherical solar desalination, and tubular solar desalination, respectively.
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