TY - GEN
T1 - Embodiment Design and Detailed Design of a Pyramid Solar Still with an Automatic Feedwater System
AU - Elgendi, Mahmoud
AU - Alhefeiti, Alyaa
AU - Almarshoodi, Houreyah
AU - Aldhaheri, Aysha
AU - Alshehhi, Wafa
AU - Selim, Mohamed
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported by the Research Office of UAE University, IDEX 2021, grant number 31N446.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021/2/2
Y1 - 2021/2/2
N2 - The solar still is a cheap and convenient device that provides potable water by desalinating saline water. However, during the evaporation process, the brine height decreases. Most of the previous designs are based on a manual feedwater system. Two inventions proposed an automatic feedwater system. However, these inventions required sufficient brine height in the solar still. Increasing the brine height decreases the solar still efficiency. The current paper proposes an automatic feedwater system that can maintain the brine height to its optimum value. Embodiment and detailed designs of this system that show the system architecture, dimensions, assembly, and material are presented. The proposed regulation system is detachable. Therefore, it can be attached to not only new solar still by also existing ones.
AB - The solar still is a cheap and convenient device that provides potable water by desalinating saline water. However, during the evaporation process, the brine height decreases. Most of the previous designs are based on a manual feedwater system. Two inventions proposed an automatic feedwater system. However, these inventions required sufficient brine height in the solar still. Increasing the brine height decreases the solar still efficiency. The current paper proposes an automatic feedwater system that can maintain the brine height to its optimum value. Embodiment and detailed designs of this system that show the system architecture, dimensions, assembly, and material are presented. The proposed regulation system is detachable. Therefore, it can be attached to not only new solar still by also existing ones.
KW - detailed design
KW - embodiment design
KW - feedwater system
KW - renewable energy
KW - solar still
KW - water desalination
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U2 - 10.1109/ICREGA50506.2021.9388218
DO - 10.1109/ICREGA50506.2021.9388218
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85104553238
T3 - 2021 6th International Conference on Renewable Energy: Generation and Applications, ICREGA 2021
SP - 44
EP - 47
BT - 2021 6th International Conference on Renewable Energy
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 6th International Conference on Renewable Energy: Generation and Applications, ICREGA 2021
Y2 - 2 February 2021 through 4 February 2021
ER -