Yingxu Chen , Jingyang Han , Keqin Huang , Xu Ji , Ren Zhang , Mengqi Wang
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Abstract
A saline-alkali water distillation system by reflection enhanced solar heating is proposed to treat the saline-alkali soil washing water. In this system, the heat concentration collector employs heat collecting plate to receive solar radiation energy, and converges to small-area steam generating tube through efficiently heat transfer. Without expensive optical tracking equipment, the system also employs an external reflector to reflect the solar radiation to the surface of the heat concentration collector. Thereby the energy flow density is further increased, and the useful energy and vaporization intensity is promoted. The latent heat of the steam is reused by heat recovery to enhance the energy utilization efficiency. The optimal inclination angles of reflector in different seasons and system performance were theoretically calculated. In the spring equinox, summer solstice, autumn equinox, and winter solstice, the optimal inclination angles of the reflector were 30°, 45°, 30°, and 15°, respectively. The freshwater production, useful energy, and heat recovery efficiency of the system were investigated by experiments. The daily freshwater production of the system was 17.04 kg, and the maximum production rate was 3.44 kg/h. The reflector increased the useful energy and freshwater production of the system by 33.68% and 35%, respectively. With heat recovery, the initial temperature of the saline-alkali water was increased to 53.8 °C and the freshwater production was increased by 13.16%.
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