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

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2017.11.009

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 language	English
Pages (from-to)	45-49
Journal	Energy Procedia
Volume	141
Early online date	19 Dec 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.11.009
Publication status	Published - 19 Dec 2017

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© 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.

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energy storage
solar still
phase change material
nano particles
productivity
paraffin

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