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Cost Analysis of Different Solar Still Configurations.

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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The enhancement of the productivity of the solar desalination system, in a certain location, could be attained by a proper modification in the system design. Therefore, different design configurations could be found in literatures. However, the increase in the system productivity with high system cost may increase also the average annual cost of the distillate. Cost analysis of different design configurations of solar desalination units is essential to evaluate the benefit of modification from the economical point of view. The main objective of this work is to estimate the water production cost for different types of solar stills. In this paper 17 design configurations are considered. Systems with higher and lower values of productivity are considered in this investigation. A simplified model for cost analysis is applied in this study. The results show that, the best average and maximum daily productivity are obtained from solar stills of single-slope and pyramid shaped. The higher average annual productivity for a solar still is about 1533 l/m2 using pyramid-shaped while the lower average annual productivity is about of 250 l/m2 using modified solar stills with sun tracking. The lowest cost of distilled water obtained from the pyramid-shaped solar still is estimated as 0.0756LE/l (about 0.0135 $/I) while highest cost from the modified solar stills with sun tracking is estimated as 1.288 LE/ (about 0.23 $/1). 

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10.21608/bfemu.2020.126002

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First Name

A.

Last Name

Kabeel

MiddleName

E.

Affiliation

Faculty of Engineering Tanta University, Egypt

Email

kabeel6@yahoo.com

City

Tanta

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First Name

ElSayed

Last Name

Elagouz

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Faculty of Engineering Tanta University, Egypt

Email

elagouz2002@yahoo.com

City

Tanta

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First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Hamed Kandeel

MiddleName

Mohamed Hamed

Affiliation

Mechanical Power Engineering Department, University of Mansoura, Egypt

Email

amhamed@mans.edu.eg

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Mansoura

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Volume

34

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2

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18583

Issue Date

2009-06-01

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2009-04-11

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2020-11-28

Page Start

26

Page End

37

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1110-0923

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2735-4202

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BFEMU_Volume 34_Issue 2_Pages 26-37.pdf

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MEJ. Mansoura Engineering Journal

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https://bfemu.journals.ekb.eg/

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Cost Analysis of Different Solar Still Configurations.

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22 Jan 2023