Performance of Corrugated Wick in “V” Type Solar Still

Pattarumadathil Unikkatt Suneesh, Rajan Jayaprakash, Tekkethil Namshad, Sanjay Kumar

Department of Physics, Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidhyalaya, College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore, India.
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, Bihar, India.
National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India.
R&D Centre, Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore, India.

DOI: 10.4236/sgre.2013.48055                

Abstract

This works reports performance of corrugated wick in a “V” type solar still. The still was tested in two configurations: plane wick integrated with drip system and corrugated wick integrated with drip system. A mathematical modeling has been proposed to validate experimental results. The experiment was performed in Tamilnadu, India climatic conditions (11° North 77° East). Experimental investigations on productivity and internal heat transfer are analyzed. The results indicate that the mean standard deviations between theoretical and experimental values are less than 7% (temperature of rippled wick), 3% (temperature of glass in rippled system), 6% (temperature of flat wick) and 3% (temperature of glass in flat system) an average for the working hours of the day. The distillate yield produced was 2800 ml/m2/day by plane wick and 2200 ml/m2/day by corrugated wick.

Keywords

Solar Still; Fresh Water; Glass; Corrugated Wick

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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