Srinivas Koppu

Department of Smart Computing

School of Information Technology and Engineering

Vellore Campus

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Performance evaluation of photovoltaic/thermal–HDH desalination system

Applied Solar Energy

Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects

A hybrid system for power, desalination, and cooling using concentrated photovoltaic/thermal collector

Two or more than two outputs from a single source result an overall high energy utilization factor (EUF) compared to the single output system. In this work, two stage humidification and dehumidification (HDH) desalination system has been extended with cooling system integration. Solar flat plate collector and concentrating collector are selected respectively for HDH desalination and single effect vapor absorption refrigeration (VAR) plant. The cooling after desalination increases the yield of distillation compared to without its integration. The sequence of operations in the combined plant is first stage air preheatinghumidification-dehumidification, second stage air preheating-humidification-dehumidification and final cooling of air with chilled water. The work is aimed on thermodynamic study for maximization of EUF for cycle and plant. The role of humidifier efficiency, its effectiveness, hot water temperature and chilled water temperature (by varying VAR evaporator temperature) has been studied on integrated performance. The resulted distilled water is 670 LPH with 75kW cooling at unit volume of air (1m3/s). The cycle EUF and plant EUF are 0.58 and 0.33 respectively. © 2014 Elsevier B.V.

Desalination

Combined two stage desalination and cooling plant

Humidification–dehumidification desalination process driven by photovoltaic thermal energy recovery (PV-HDH) for small-scale sustainable water and power production

Energy Conversion and Management

Performance analysis of photovoltaic thermal (PVT) water collectors

Modeling and optimization of an air-cooled photovoltaic thermal (PV/T) system using genetic algorithms

Experimental study of a solar desalination system based on humidification–dehumidification process

Journal	Applied Solar Energy
Publisher	Allerton Press
ISSN	0003-701X
Open Access	0