Nanoparticles Enhanced Phase Change Material (NPCM) as Heat Storage in Solar Still Application for Productivity Enhancement

D. Dsilva Winfred Rufuss, S. Iniyan, L. Suganthi, Philip A Davies

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Abstract

Whereas other researchers used various active and passive techniques to improve the productivity of solar still, this paper uses nanoparticles impregnated in phase change material (NPCM) for productivity enhancement. The solar still is fabricated individually with phase change material (PCM) and NPCM and analyzed both experimentally and theoretically. It is found that the solar still with PCM yielded 1.96 kg/0.5m2 whereas the solar still with NPCM yielded 2.64 kg/0.5m2. There was 35% improvement in productivity observed in solar still with NPCM as against solar still with PCM. The experimental results were validated with the predicted results and the discrepancy was found to be ±10%. Hence it is concluded that NPCM has better potential than PCM for solar still applications
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)45-49
JournalEnergy Procedia
Volume141
Early online date19 Dec 2017
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 19 Dec 2017

Bibliographical note

© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. Licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Funding: Maulana Azad National Fellowship (MANF), University Grants Commission (UGC), India.

Keywords

  • energy storage
  • solar still
  • phase change material
  • nano particles
  • productivity
  • paraffin

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