Sustainable productivity enhancement of conical solar distillers using Peanut Shell bio-waste: Energy and economic analyses

IF 2.3 4区环境科学与生态学 Q3 ENGINEERING, CHEMICAL

Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy Pub Date : 2025-12-10 DOI:10.1002/ep.70253

A. Muthu Manokar, Mohammed El Hadi Attia, Alagar Karthick, Madhu Petchimuthu

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Abstract

This experimental study aimed to improve the output of the Conical Distiller (CD) using low-cost natural bio-materials. Three CDs (simple CD (SCD), a CD with Natural Peanut Shells (CD-NPS) and a CD with Black-Painted Peanut Shells (CD-BPS)) were fabricated for comparative analysis under identical climatic conditions. Experimental results revealed that the daily yields, energy, and exergy efficiencies for SCD, CD-NPS, and CD-BPS are 4.69 kg, 6.49%, 45.30%, and 7.43%, 31.23%, 52.06%, and 1.15%, 1.78%, 2.38%, respectively. The results showed that the daily yields of CD-NPS and CD-BPS increased by 38.4% and 58.4%, respectively, and the daily energy efficiency of CD-NPS and CD-BPS increased by 45.06% and 66.69%, respectively, compared with the SCD. The daily exergy efficiency of CD-NPS and CD-BPS increased by 54.20% and 106.64%, respectively, compared with the SCD. The economic analysis confirmed that integrating BPS is an effective and cost-effective way to improve the CD yield.

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利用花生壳生物废料可持续提高锥形太阳能蒸馏器的生产效率：能源和经济分析

本实验旨在利用低成本的天然生物材料提高锥形蒸馏器（CD）的产量。在相同的气候条件下，制作了3张CD(简单CD （SCD）、天然花生壳CD （CD- nps）和涂黑花生壳CD （CD- bps）进行对比分析。实验结果表明，SCD、CD-NPS和CD-BPS的日产量、能量和㶲效率分别为4.69 kg、6.49%、45.30%和7.43%、31.23%、52.06%和1.15%、1.78%、2.38%。结果表明，与SCD相比，CD-NPS和CD-BPS的日产量分别提高了38.4%和58.4%，CD-NPS和CD-BPS的日能效分别提高了45.06%和66.69%。CD-NPS和CD-BPS的日火用效率分别比SCD提高了54.20%和106.64%。经济分析证实，整合BPS是提高CD产量的有效且经济的方法。

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Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy 环境科学-工程：化工

CiteScore

5.00

自引率

3.60%

发文量

231

审稿时长

4.3 months

期刊介绍： Environmental Progress , a quarterly publication of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, reports on critical issues like remediation and treatment of solid or aqueous wastes, air pollution, sustainability, and sustainable energy. Each issue helps chemical engineers (and those in related fields) stay on top of technological advances in all areas associated with the environment through feature articles, updates, book and software reviews, and editorials.