Transient Modeling of a New Solar Distillation Unit for Remote Areas

A Master of Science thesis in Mechanical Engineering by Muhammad Mustafa Muhammad Iqbal entitled, "Transient Modeling of a New Solar Distillation Unit for Remote Areas," submitted in December 2016. Thesis advisor is Dr. Mehmet Fatih Orhan and thesis co-advisor is Dr. Hasan Fath. Soft and h...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Iqbal, Muhammad Mustafa Muhammad (author)
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منشور في: 2016
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Solar Desalination
Solar Still
Humidification-dehumidification
Solar Absorber
Transient Modeling
Solar saline water conversion plants
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spelling Transient Modeling of a New Solar Distillation Unit for Remote AreasIqbal, Muhammad Mustafa MuhammadSolar DesalinationSolar StillHumidification-dehumidificationSolar AbsorberTransient ModelingSolar saline water conversion plantsA Master of Science thesis in Mechanical Engineering by Muhammad Mustafa Muhammad Iqbal entitled, "Transient Modeling of a New Solar Distillation Unit for Remote Areas," submitted in December 2016. Thesis advisor is Dr. Mehmet Fatih Orhan and thesis co-advisor is Dr. Hasan Fath. Soft and hard copy available.The concept of lack of fresh water in our daily life is hard to imagine in recent times with its increasing demand. Lack of fresh water supplies has become one of the major current societal concerns, especially for people living in remote areas, where there is limited or no resources of fresh water. Large amount of fresh water is produced using the conventional desalination technologies like thermal and membrane process. The conventional desalination technologies for large water production are Multi Stage Flash (MSF), Multi Effect Desalination (MED), Vapor Compression (VC) and Reverse Osmosis (RO). Big shares of Thermo and/or electrical energies are utilized using these processes. These technologies require high quality operation and maintenance. They require the usage of fossil fuels, which causes negative environmental effects. In order to minimize these effects and especially for remote areas, where the demand of fresh water is less, renewable energy integrated with desalination is the optimum solution. This thesis presents the transient modeling of a novel solar desalination system for remote areas. The new system consists of Solar Still (SS) integrated with multi effect Humidification-Dehumidification (HDH) with built in solar absorber. As the conventional solar still distillation has drawbacks of low specific productivity due to the loss of condensation energy as well as the adverse effect in environment due to brine discharge, the aim is to model and design a solar driven integrated SS-HDH-Absorber desalination unit that can produce the fresh water capacity of 50 Liter with zero brine discharge (ZBD) for a single family use. The main objective is to enhance the unit's water production by utilizing the waste latent heat of condensation of the still and solar absorber thermal energy for additional water production in addition to recovering brine salts as by product. This will lead to produced water cost reduction while maintaining the simplicity of the system operation and maintenance. A numerical code is developed in MATLAB to simulate the integrated system and study the effect of various environmental, design and operational parameters on the unit's productivity.College of EngineeringDepartment of Mechanical EngineeringMaster of Science in Mechanical Engineering (MSME)Orhan, Mehmet FatihFath, Hasan2017-02-14T05:39:09Z2017-02-14T05:39:09Z2016-12info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesisapplication/pdf35.232-2016.52http://hdl.handle.net/11073/8782en_USoai:repository.aus.edu:11073/87822025-06-26T12:33:30Z
spellingShingle Transient Modeling of a New Solar Distillation Unit for Remote Areas
Iqbal, Muhammad Mustafa Muhammad
Solar Desalination
Solar Still
Humidification-dehumidification
Solar Absorber
Transient Modeling
Solar saline water conversion plants
status_str publishedVersion
title Transient Modeling of a New Solar Distillation Unit for Remote Areas
title_full Transient Modeling of a New Solar Distillation Unit for Remote Areas
title_fullStr Transient Modeling of a New Solar Distillation Unit for Remote Areas
title_full_unstemmed Transient Modeling of a New Solar Distillation Unit for Remote Areas
title_short Transient Modeling of a New Solar Distillation Unit for Remote Areas
title_sort Transient Modeling of a New Solar Distillation Unit for Remote Areas
topic Solar Desalination
Solar Still
Humidification-dehumidification
Solar Absorber
Transient Modeling
Solar saline water conversion plants
url http://hdl.handle.net/11073/8782