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A novel integrated solar desalination system with multi-stage evaporation/heat recovery processes

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  • Liu, Zhen-hua
  • Hu, Ren-Lin
  • Chen, Xiu-juan

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A novel small-sized integrated solar desalination system with multi-stage evaporation/heat recovery processes is designed and tested in this study. The system consists of four linked collecting units and operates under barotropic and atmospheric pressure. Each of the four units contains a seawater tank and at least one solar collecting/desalination panel mainly comprising a simplified CPC (Compound Parabolic Concentrator) and an all-glass evacuated tube collector. In the last three units, heat exchangers made of copper tubes are inserted concentrically into the all-glass evacuated tubes to recover heat. In each unit, an independent desalination process including solar collecting, heat recovery (no heat recovered in the first unit) and seawater evaporation can be carried out completely. The experimental results show that the freshwater field of the designed system can reach as high as 1.25 kg/(h m2) in the autumn and the system total efficiency is close to 0.9. Both experimental results provide a striking demonstration that the designed solar desalination system has outstanding performance in solar collecting, heat recovery and seawater evaporation.

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  • Liu, Zhen-hua & Hu, Ren-Lin & Chen, Xiu-juan, 2014. "A novel integrated solar desalination system with multi-stage evaporation/heat recovery processes," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 64(C), pages 26-33.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:renene:v:64:y:2014:i:c:p:26-33
    DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2013.10.040
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