TY - JOUR
TI - Thermal asymmetry model of single slope single basin solar still with sponge liner
AU - Sengottain Shanmugan
AU - Balasundaram Janarathanan
AU - Joseph Chandrasekaran
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2014
VL - 18
IS - 12
SP - 439
EP - 450
PT - Article
AB - An attempt has been made to propose a thermal asymmetry model for single  slope basin type solar still with sponge liner of different thickness (3cm,  5cm, and 10cm) in the basin. Two different color sponge liners have been used  i.e., yellow and black. In the proposed design, a suitable dripping  arrangement has been designed and used to pour water drop by drop over the  sponge liner instead of sponge liner in stagnant saline water in the basin.  The special arrangement overcomes the dryness of the sponge during peak sunny  hours. The performance of the system with black color sponge of 3cm thickness  shows better result with an output of 5.3 kg/m2 day and the proposed model  have used to find the thermal asymmetries during the working hours of the  still.