Experimental Studies and CFD Modeling on Solar Distillation System

Modeling and experimental studies on a domestic solar dryer

A domestic solar dryer with transparent external surfaces was designed, built and tested. Thin-layer drying models that describe the drying phenomena in a unified way, regardless of the controlling mechanism; have been used to estimate the drying period for several products. Temperature of the drying medium is one of the factors that affect the drying rate constant of the exponential model. Thi...

Experimental and CFD Studies on the Effect of the Jet Position on Mixing Performance

Theoretical and Experimental Studies on Startup Strategies for a Heat-integrated Distillation Column System

Due to their higher efficiency of energy utilisation heat-integrated column systems have been widely used in chemical industry. However, the heat-integration leads to difficulties in startup of such columns, i.e. a long startup time and thus considerable costs will be resulted. In this work, a study consisting of modelling, simulation, optimisation and experimental verification is made for deve...

Experimental Study and CFD Modeling of the Ohmic Heating Process in a Static Two-Phase Biosolid – Liquid System

The effective parameters on Ohmic heating in static system containing biosolid-water were studied. The effects of distribution of particles, salinity and electric field strength on electrical conductivity,</e...

An experimental study of solar thermal vacuum membrane distillation desalination

An experimental desalination system coupling a vacuum membrane distillation (VMD) unit and a vacuum tube solar heat collection (SHC) unit was developed and tested. The parametric sensitivity of the VMD unit performance was investigated first using an electric heater as the heat source, and then the whole system was examined using solar heat. It was revealed that hot feed temperatures higher tha...