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• TITLE: Forecast on the Productivity of a Multiple Effects Plan Solar Distiller

  AUTHORS: Dobet Dago Djaman Ives N’drin, Siaka Touré, Adingra Paul Arsène Kouassi

  KEYWORDS: Solar Distillation, Solar Distiller, Predict, Productivity, Daily Irradiation, Longitude, Latitude, Time Zone Offset, Date, Start Time, End Time

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol.15 No.7, July 24, 2025

  ABSTRACT: In this study, we first present the operation of a five-compartment solar distiller involving several effects: heat conduction from the absorber of the central compartment (using the principle of hot-box solar stoves) to the tanks of the two compartments containing the water to be distilled and exposed to the sun (using the principle of flat solar distillers with a simple greenhouse effect), and a portion of each of the vapors produced in these two compartments will be diverted to two other compartments for condensation. Secondly, we will predict, for years between 2013 and 2022, the productivity of this distiller as a function of daily irradiation, longitude of location, latitude of location, time zone offset of the location, date of day, start time and end time of the distiller’s exposure to the sun.