Simulation, Modeling, and Experimental Studies of Solar Distillation Systems

The conventional solar stills have a poor distillate production capacity. This makes the system highly uneconomical. According to the type of input energy, the solar stills are classified into passive and active solar stills. A lot of research works have been carried out to improve the performance of the still by adopting different techniques using both experimental and software analysis. Software application is essential in design and optimization of the performance-effecting parameters for solar stills before fabrication. CFD simulations technique is being done with the help of ANSYS and FLUENT. TRNSYS is to examine the temperature profile and vapor flow pattern inside solar stills. MATLAB and FORTRAN are very useful tools for developing computer code of mathematical models for yield prediction. This chapter is focused on the research work being done in the software application and its analysis of solar still. All recently employed and developed software for the utility of solar still system are being discussed. This research will help researcher and other scientist about the scope of the research possible in the software-oriented research.