THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF A SOLAR-STILL TYPE SUITABLE FOR ALCOHOLIC DISTILLATION

Throught this work, a theoritical and experimental study of a small so lar still of a domestic type with two distinct compartments has been l ead. It is shown in this study that the Dunkle's relation about the pr oductivity of a classical still can be applied to our system in order to predict reasonably the production of our still. We have then put th e stress on alcohol distillation for this model in order to adapt sola r distillation to alcohol distillation On this field, the results show well that solar energy can perfectly be used to produce alcohol with our prototype. (C) 1998 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.