Effects of water heating time on the efficiency of a wick-covered partition solar still

Abstract

Clean water is a rare thing to find because many water sources are contaminated with wasting product from industry. One way to get drinkable water from contaminated water is by distillation using solar energy. The type of distillation that is widely used is basin and wick type absorber. The basin type has an advantage on the small loss of heat energy coming out of the distillation tool, but has low effectiveness on evaporation process. While the type of wick absorber has a higher effectiveness, but there is a loss energy coming out of the distillation tool greater than the basin type. This study aims to discover the effect of water heating time on the efficiency of solar water distillation. This research uses an experimental method by making model which is combining the advantages of basin and wick type absorber become a wick-covered partition solar still. Variables varied in this study are (1) the type of solar still with water is accommodated and flowed on each partition, and (2) the type of solar still with and without any wasted energy out of the solar still. Our results show that variations without any loss of energy and water are accommodated at a volume of 100 ml in each partition have efficiency up to 67.7%.Clean water is a rare thing to find because many water sources are contaminated with wasting product from industry. One way to get drinkable water from contaminated water is by distillation using solar energy. The type of distillation that is widely used is basin and wick type absorber. The basin type has an advantage on the small loss of heat energy coming out of the distillation tool, but has low effectiveness on evaporation process. While the type of wick absorber has a higher effectiveness, but there is a loss energy coming out of the distillation tool greater than the basin type. This study aims to discover the effect of water heating time on the efficiency of solar water distillation. This research uses an experimental method by making model which is combining the advantages of basin and wick type absorber become a wick-covered partition solar still. Variables varied in this study are (1) the type of solar still with water is accommodated and flowed on each partition, and (2) the type of solar still...