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Experimental studies on inclined PV panel solar still with cover cooling and PCM

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This work presents the experimental studies on the effect of mass stream rate of water (mf), phase change material and cover cooling of an inclined solar panel basin solar still (ISPBSS). Experimental results revealed that cooling the entire surface of the glass cover of ISPBSS with fully opened flow of water produced the maximum distilled water. On varying mf, the glass temperature is higher during the minimum mf. With increased mf from 7.35 to 13.32 and from 7.35 to 17.72 kg h−1, the glass temperature is almost equivalent to the ambient temperature with fully opened flow cover cooling technique. The reduced glass temperature enhanced the rate of condensation. Similarly, the hourly instant efficiency of the ISPBSS with fully opened cover cooling is higher as compared with the similar ISPBSS without and with partially cover cooling condition. The highest hourly instantaneous efficiency of ISPBSS with partially and fully opened cover cooling is found as 85% and 88%, respectively.

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Abbreviations

m f :

Mass stream rate of water

M w :

Mass of water

b w :

Water film thickness

U w :

Water film velocity

V a :

Wind velocity

CSS:

Conventional solar still

PCM:

Phase change material

FPC:

Flat plate collector

ISS:

Inclined solar still

ISPBSS:

Inclined solar panel basin solar still

PTC:

Parabolic trough collector

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  1. Mechanical Power Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt

    A. E. Kabeel, Ravishankar Sathyamurthy & S. A. El-Agouz

  2. Department of Automobile Engineering, Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 603103, India

    Ravishankar Sathyamurthy

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

    A. Muthu manokar

  4. Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt

    Emad M. S. El-Said

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Kabeel, A.E., Sathyamurthy, R., El-Agouz, S.A. et al. Experimental studies on inclined PV panel solar still with cover cooling and PCM. J Therm Anal Calorim 138, 3987–3995 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-019-08561-6

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