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- The study focuses on improving the performance of hemispherical solar distillers by designing new truncated circular cone-shaped reflector mirrors (TCC-RM) and testing different inclination angles.
- Eight inclination angles were tested, revealing that a 25° angle significantly increases cumulative yield to 8.35 L/m, an enhancement of 42.74% over the traditional distiller.
- Results show that while certain angles (30°, 35°, 20°, 40°, and 15°) yield better results than the traditional design, angles of 10° and 45° actually decrease performance, recommending a 25° angle for optimal efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
Article Abstract
The present study aims to achieve the highest cumulative yield of the hemispherical distillers, by designing and constructing new reflector mirrors, which are truncated circular cone-shaped reflector mirrors (TCC-RM). To obtain the optimum inclination of TCC-RM that achieves the highest hemispherical distiller's performance, eight inclination angles (10°, 15°, 20°, 25°, 30°, 35°, 40°, and 45° with vertical) were experimentally studied. To achieve this, a series of experimental tests were carried out on the three hemispherical solar distillers: the first represents the reference distiller (traditional hemispherical solar distiller (THSD)) and the other two devices are the hemispherical solar distiller with truncated circular cone-shaped reflector mirrors (HSD-TCCRM) with different inclination angles. The experimental results indicate that utilizing TCC-RM with a 25° inclination angle achieves the maximum cumulative yield of 8.35 L/m with an improvement of 42.74% compared to THSD. While the utilization of TCC-RM with the inclination angles of 30°, 35°, 20°, 40°, and 15° achieves the cumulative yield of 7.9, 7.3, 7.05, 6.67, and 6.6 L/m compared with 5.85 L/m for THSD. On the contrary, adjusting the inclination angle of TCC-RM at 10° and 45° affects negatively the cumulative yield of the HSD with TCC-RM in comparison with THSD. Based on the data of cumulative yield, daily efficiency, and the economic analysis it is recommended to utilize TCC-RM with a 25° inclination angle to achieve the highest performance and minimum distillate cost of hemispherical solar distillers.
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