Improved and Modified Design of Seawater Solar Desalinator Prototype

Improved design of simple solar desalinator was fabricated for the conversion of seawater into potable water. The efficiency was calculated by using samples of seawater collected from Ad-Hariz region-Salalah-Oman. It was found that the samples contain minerals of very high concentrations and no bacteria presented. The average %efficiency was 16.063±3.360%. The maximum %Efficiency was 21.525 ± 0.001%. The average flow rate of pure water obtained was 2.121 ± 0.755 L/m
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.d. The maximum flow rate of fresh water production was 3.0667±0.001 L/m
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.d. The approximated cost for the manufactured prototype was 130 US$. The value of 426292.5 ± 20781 W/m
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per day was measured for the average accumulative Solar Flux (SF) measured during the whole experiments.