PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF A HIGH-TEMPERATURE SOLAR DISTILLATION SYSTEM

A solar still integrated with a parallel flat plate solar collector is employed to perform distillation at a relatively high temperature and is, therefore, referred to as a high temperature solar distillation s ystem. The performance analysis of this system is reported, and closed form solutions are obtained for the temperatures of various component s of the system, the distillate output and the efficiency as a functio n of the still and collector parameters apart from the meteorological and heat and mass transfer parameters. For appreciation of the analyti cal results, numerical calculations have been carried out incorporatin g the meteorological parameters of a typical day in Delhi.