TY  - EJOU
AU  - Faisal, Zahraa A. 
AU  - Hameed, Hassanain Ghani 
AU  - Al-Shamkhee, Dhafer Manea H. 

TI  - NUMERICALLY INVESTIGATING THE EFFECTS OF FEED WATER  PREHEATING TANK DESIGN ON THE PERFORMANCE OF SINGLE  SLOPE SOLAR STILL
T2  - Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer

PY  - 2021
VL  - 17
IS  - 1
SN  - 2151-8629

AB  - One of the common water desalination apparatuses in freshwater regimes is Single Slope Solar Still (SSSS). This paper numerically investigated the 
heat transfer processes that took place inside the still. Also, implementing an optimization process to explore the best sustainable feed water preheating 
tank design. Comsol Software package (v 5.4) was utilized to develop and validate the 3D Mathematical model. The investigation included comparing 
four different tank designs namely are sphere, half-sphere, cone, and flat plate. In addition, the influence of altering the volume of the tank has been 
considered. The study revealed that the half-sphere design with a volume of 2.5 times the productivity of Conventional SSSS accompanied the highest 
recorded water temperature and productivity. The efficiency of the SSSS was enhanced by 27% in contrast to that without preheating.
KW  - <i>Single slope solar still
KW  -  Solar energy
KW  -  Comsol
KW  -  Preheating</i>

DO  - 10.5098/hmt.17.22