How can we do seawater purification in poor communities?

Dear Suleiman, I have seen this system the other day but you should also look at a system called SunVention

http://www.teriin.org/technology/solar

When you use concentrating solar power with a sun tracking system then the seawater distillation technique is often used in desalination of water from sea or boreholes.

Regards Gerro

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Suleiman Halasah

Thank you, Gerro.

The problem with concentrating solar power is the high maintenance and cost, I am looking for a cheaper system, I will be trying the distiller with solar water heater, but I am not sure about the efficiency...

Maddali V S Murali Krishna

It is good idea of using solar water heater in which the input energy is solar energy and water gets heated and becomes vapor, which can be condensed to get purified water. There are some constraints in this system, as solar energy or solar heat flux depends on size of the container or water heater. Hence capcity or size of the container is limited. This is slow process as area of the heat transfer is reduced compared with conventional method of using solar energy by means of collectos. As efficiency of this system is very low as it depends on area of heat transfer, Practical problems are there however suggestion of using solar water heater to get pure water is apprecialed.

Gino OLIVE

There is a system invented by Gabriele Diamanti who can purify 5L of water per day under the influence of the sun:

http://www.gabrielediamanti.com/projects/eliodomestico---how-does-it-work/

Maddali V S Murali Krishna

Quantity of water, which gets purnifed through solar water heater is very less hardly 5L/day as reviealed by Dr. Gino Olive.

Mohamed El Mokhtar Dah

There are two types of solar stills:

1.The passive solar still (simple basin solar still) this is the cheapest one but with low daily production (around 3L/m2/day). Many researchers studied the parameters affecting the performance of these simple basins solar stills

In this links you will find number of the latest work on the development of the simple basin solar still

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032114000070

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032114004262

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261913007101

2.The active solar still: In this type of solar stills an additional collectors or condensers are used to enhance the productivity. The productivity of this type is better than the simple basin solar still but also the cost is more. You can see these publication on the active solar still :

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261914010307

http://www.sciencedirect.com.ezproxy.ju.edu.sa:2048/science/article/pii/S0011916414003427

Dr. Mokhtar

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