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Solar Distillation Plant

Solar Box Type Cooker

 

1. Function : Converting salt water into potable water
2. Specification :  
  i. Base : Area                   :  15 m2
Concrete             :  1:5:10
Wearing coat       :  1:1.5:3
7.5 cm thick black coated

  ii. Side walls : Brick masonry

  iii. Roof : Glass roof on steel truss
Thickness of glass : 5 mm

  iv. Distilled water collecting   channel
 
: Aluminium
  v. Tank : Two numbers in brick masonry structure

3. General Information : The unit is a basin type solar distillation plant of masonry construction, with a basin area of 15 m2 and slope of the glass cover is 15°. 

The distilled water sliding down the slope of the bottom of the glass cover is collected at the end along the aluminium channels.  The channels are fixed with a slope to collect the water at the end where the water drops in to the tank through the end cover and pipe at the bottom.
4 Cost of operation

  Rs.6/h
5. Salient features : The still can yield 3 to 4 liters of distilled water per square meter area of the basin in a day.

Contact us

Professor and Head,
Department of Bio-Energy,
TNAU, Coimbatore-641003.
Phone: 0422-6611276
Email: bioenergy@tnau.ac.in

Updated on: Jan, 2015
 
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