Experimental Study of Performance of Conical Solar Still Using Nano fluid

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

No endeavor achieves success without the advice and co-operation of others, the
help of whom went along way while working in this Dissertation. I am very glad to
present Dissertation report on, “Experimental Study of Performance of Conical Solar
Still Using Nano fluid”

Successful human Endeavour is seldom a result of individual enterprise. It is

indeed no different with this work. I am grateful to the Department of Mechanical
Engineering PK Technical Campus, Pune for molding our self in such a dynamic
and advanced technological environment.

I am greatly indebted to my guide Prof. Vishal Jadhav who has been driving
force behind the entire Dissertation work. His wholehearted support and timely
advice, which has helped us a lot to complete work of analysis and designing of
Dissertation work. I would like to thanks HOD of mechanical engineering Prof.
Satish Patil to undertake dissertation & providing requisite facilities.

Last but not a least I would like to thank my colleagues, friends, classmates for
their timely help & moral boosting during the dissertation work. Finally, I would
like to thank all those who have helped me either directly or indirectly for completing
this Dissertation successfully.

Abhijeet Ekhande

Ravikant Jadhav

Mahadev Pawar

Ashvini Chaudhary

Date: / /

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LIST OF FIGURE
Figure 1. - Principal of working of solar still………......................................................................20

Figure 2. - Relation between latitude angel & angel of tilt…………….........................................22

Figure 3. - Line diagram of experimental set up…………….........................................................25

Figure 4. -Base frame design in CATIA .........................................................................................26

Figure 5. -Base frame drafting in CATIA ......................................................................................27

Figure 6. -Glass frame design in CATIA .......................................................................................28

Figure 7. -Glass frame drafting in CATIA......................................................................................29

Figure 8. -Nut and Bolt design in CATIA ......................................................................................30

Figure 9. – Assembly design in CATIA…………………………………......................................31

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LIST OF TABLE
Table 1 – Angle of tilt calculations……………...……………………….……...……………….23

Table 2 – Yearly plan of project activity……......……………………….……...……………….32

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TABLE OF CONTENT
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT................................................................................................................i

LIST OF FIGURES......................................................................................................................... ii

LIST OF TABLES..........................................................................................................................iii

TABLE OF CONTENT .................................................................................................................iv

ABSTRACT……………………………………………………………………….……..………..v

1. INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................................1

1.1 PROBLEM STATEMENT...................................................................................................1

1.2 OBJECTIVES.......................................................................................................................1

1.3 SCOPE……………………………………………………………………………………..2

1.4 METHODOLOGY................................................................................................................2

1.5 ORGANIZATION OF DISSERTATION…………………………………………………3

2. LITERATURE REVIEW............................................................................................................4

3. SOLAR STILL THEORY..........................................................................................................20

4. DESIGN………………......................................................................................................... ...22

4.1 ANGEL OF TILT OF GLASS FRAME..............................................................................22

5. CONSTRUCTION AND WORKING.......................................................................................25

5.1 BASE FRAME.....................................................................................................................26

5.2 GLASS FRAME...................................................................................................................28

5.3 NUT AND BOLT DESIGN………………………………………………………………..30

5.3 ASSEMBLY DESIGN.........................................................................................................31

6. YEARLY PLAN OF PROJECT ACTIVITY........................................................................... 32

CONCLUSION............................................................................................................................. 33

REFERENCES............................................................................................................................. 34

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ABSTRACT
The world requirement for potable water is increasing steadily with growing population.
Desalination of Water using solar energy is suitable for potable water production from brackish
and seawater. Many researches and development works tried to enhance the productivity of solar
stills using different methods. So this work focuses on the productivity enhancement of solar still
by decreasing the shadow effect for maximum utilization of solar radiation by using conical solar
still. A conical solar still will be manufactured & its performance will study by using parameters
like depth of water in basin, day time, basin water temperature, heat transfer coefficient, solar
radiation, etc. To improve performance of conical solar still the Nano fluid of copper oxide will
added to basin water in % of 0.05 to 0.1. The performance of solar still will be compared with &
without Nano fluids. The Yield per hour will be measured & daily efficiency will have been
calculated.

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