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- Title
Experimental Performance Analysis of a Solar Desalination System Modified with Natural Dolomite Powder Integrated Latent Heat Thermal Storage Unit.
- Authors
Selimefendigil, Fatih; Şirin, Ceylin; Öztop, Hakan F.
- Abstract
Solar desalination systems are effective and sustainable applications that are utilized to obtain potable water from saline or contaminated water. In this research, three solar desalination systems, including a conventional system, a phase change material (PCM)-based thermal energy storage unit (TESU), and a natural dolomite powder integrated PCM-based TESU, were structured and experimentally investigated. The developed solar desalination systems were analyzed simultaneously and the findings were discussed in detail. According to the empirically obtained outcomes, utilizing PCM-based TESUs and dolomite-powder-embedded PCM-based TESUs increased daily cumulative productivity by 10.15% and 17.70%, respectively, in comparison to the conventional distiller. Employing dolomite powder increased the energy and exergy efficiencies of the conventional distiller from 15.91% to 18.28% and from 1.26% to 1.78%, respectively. Moreover, environmental metrics such as global warming potential and the sustainability index of the developed solar desalination systems were analyzed within the scope of this work.
- Subjects
SOLAR system; HEAT storage; LATENT heat; DOLOMITE; PHASE change materials; POWDERS; SALINE waters
- Publication
Sustainability (2071-1050), 2022, Vol 14, Issue 5, pN.PAG
- ISSN
2071-1050
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/su14052650