Optimal Design of a Solar Desalination Unit with Heliostats
The objective is to improve the yield of a solar desalination cell using concentration of solar rays by means of automatically controlled heliostats. The vertical cell is orientated towards the north. It is mainly composed of two plates; the one being heated by the solar rays reflected by the mirror...
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| description | The objective is to improve the yield of a solar desalination cell using concentration of solar rays by means of automatically controlled heliostats. The vertical cell is orientated towards the north. It is mainly composed of two plates; the one being heated by the solar rays reflected by the mirrors is used for evaporation of a falling water film; the other one is used for water vapor condensation. Each heliostat consists of an altitude-azimuth mount having two degrees of freedom and supporting a plane mirror. The heliostat permanently follows the sun trajectory and reflects the solar rays on the cell by means of automatic control implemented in a control card based on a microcontroller. Model predictive control allows us to maximize the distilled water production. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3dc590e9e9784d6f94bfb841c6166ca92025-08-20T02:07:51ZengWileyInternational Journal of Chemical Engineering1687-806X1687-80782017-01-01201710.1155/2017/59241735924173Optimal Design of a Solar Desalination Unit with HeliostatsM. Abidi0S. Ben Jabrallah1J. P. Corriou2Laboratoire des Systèmes Avancés (LSA), Ecole Polytechnique de Tunisie, BP 740, 2078 La Marsa, TunisiaFaculté des Sciences de Bizerte, 7021 Zarzouna, TunisiaLaboratoire Réactions et Génie des Procédés (LRGP), CNRS-ENSIC, Université de Lorraine, 1 rue Grandville, BP 20451, 54001 Nancy Cedex, FranceThe objective is to improve the yield of a solar desalination cell using concentration of solar rays by means of automatically controlled heliostats. The vertical cell is orientated towards the north. It is mainly composed of two plates; the one being heated by the solar rays reflected by the mirrors is used for evaporation of a falling water film; the other one is used for water vapor condensation. Each heliostat consists of an altitude-azimuth mount having two degrees of freedom and supporting a plane mirror. The heliostat permanently follows the sun trajectory and reflects the solar rays on the cell by means of automatic control implemented in a control card based on a microcontroller. Model predictive control allows us to maximize the distilled water production.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/5924173 |
| spellingShingle | M. Abidi S. Ben Jabrallah J. P. Corriou Optimal Design of a Solar Desalination Unit with Heliostats International Journal of Chemical Engineering |
| title | Optimal Design of a Solar Desalination Unit with Heliostats |
| title_full | Optimal Design of a Solar Desalination Unit with Heliostats |
| title_fullStr | Optimal Design of a Solar Desalination Unit with Heliostats |
| title_full_unstemmed | Optimal Design of a Solar Desalination Unit with Heliostats |
| title_short | Optimal Design of a Solar Desalination Unit with Heliostats |
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