Estimation of Evaporation of Water from a Liquid Desiccant Solar Collector and Regenerator by Using Conservation of Mass and Energy Principles

Solar thermal energy-powered air conditioning technologies are receiving increased attention. Among the solar energy-driven cooling technologies, open type liquid desiccant (AC) system is emerging as a promising technology, which has driven solution regenerator. In this of system, evaporation water and concentrating or regenerator performance determines AC necessitates its development experimental testing under actual operating conditions. The setup made black painted corrugated collector area 0.8 m × 1.84 covered with glass, tank distribution over absorber. regeneration experiments on calcium chloride–water were carried out total five sets meteorological, property data collected through from 32.9 initially to 51.3% in days. was analyzed using energy mass conservation. For typical day, evaporated estimated be 3.10 3.16 kg by conservation principles 34.8 chloride initial concentration 43.6% stored tank.