Experimental Investigation on Coupling Evacuated Heat Pipe Collector on Single Basin Single Slope Solar Still Productivity

Experimental Investigation on Coupling Evacuated Heat Pipe Collector on Single Basin Single Slope Solar Still Productivity

1Hitesh N Panchal, 2Dr. Manish Doshi, 3Anup Patel, 4 Keyursinh Thakor

1Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, L C Institute of Technology, Mehsana Gujarat, India
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2. Member of Institution of Engineer (MIE)
3. Assistant Professor, L C Institute of Technology, Mehsana
4. Assistant Professor, L C Institute of Technology, Mehsana

Abstract
Solar still is very important device to convert the available brackish water into drinkable water. Here work is carried out to know the effect of coupling an Evacuated Heat Pipe Collector on the solar still. Other different parameters like Water depth, Sun direction and solar radiation to enhance the productivity. It has found that coupling an Evacuated Heat pipe collector with a solar still has increased the productivity by 32%. Also it has found that the productivity is reduced while using higher water depth and solar insolation is directly proportional to the Productivity.
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Keywords: Pyranometer, Thermocouples, Evacuated Heat Pipe Collector

1. Introduction
O.O. Badran [1] performed experiment on single slope solar still using different operational parameters like basin water depth, glass cover thickness, insulating materials and proved that, productivity of distilled output is increased upto 51% when combined enhancers such as asphalt basin liner and sprinkler have been applied on single slope solar still.Kalidasa Murugavel et.al.[2] gave brief report on solar desalination regarding with various methods of improving the productivity. They suggested that different materials are used in basin solar still to improve the heat capacity, radiation absorption capacity and condensation rate. Kalidasa Murugavel at.al [3] used different wick materials like light cotton cloth, light jute cloth, sponge sheet of 2 mm thickness and different porous

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