Advanced Solar-Distillation Systems

This book is primarily intended to serve as a textbook and reference work for graduate and professional training coursework on solar desalination of water. The book begins with an introduction to the increasing demand for potable water, various types of water pollution and its impacts on human health, and goes on to cover basics of desalination technologies. It covers all aspects of solar-energy based distillation and desalination for producing potable water resources, including radiation and heat transfer concepts, a history of solar distillation systems, and background on solar collectors. The contents include thermal modeling and parametric study of solar distillation. Energy and exergy aspects are analyzed in detail, including energy matrices of solar distillation. A special chapter on exeroeconomics introduces fundamental equations which include the general balance equation, thermodynamic balance equations, and economic balance equations. A chapter on Economic Analysis of Solar Distillation completes the coverage. The book includes solved examples and end-of-chapter exercises in the form of both problems and objective-type questions. The contents of this book are useful to students, researchers, professionals, and policymakers looking for a comprehensive resource on solar desalination.

Mr. Lovedeep Sahota was born on November 11, 1988 at Jhinger Kalan, Dasuya, Hoshiarpur (Punjab), India. He received his Bachelor of Science, Physics honors school degree (B.Sc. Hons) and Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree in Physics from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar (Punjab), India and Master of Science (M.Sc) degree in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), Delhi, India in 2008 and 2010, respectively. During his M.Sc. program he worked on power coupling of waveguide devices and had solved coupled mode equations by programming in MATLAB to analyze the exchange of power in the planner and tapered directional couplers. His M.Sc. dissertation was titled “Numerical Modeling and Analysis of Waveguide Devices” in fiber optics. He had qualified for the State-Level University Entrance Examination in 2005, Joint Admission Test for M.Sc. (IIT JAM) examination in 2008, Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in 2012, and University Grant Commission-National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET) for Lectureship in June 2014. He worked as an Assistant Professor at the Shivdan Singh Institute of Technology and Management (SSITM), Aligarh from July 2010 to July 2012 and taught Basic Engineering Physics, Laser, and Electromagnetic Theory at graduate level. Presently, he is pursuing his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. G.N. Tiwari at the Centre for Energy Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), Delhi. He has published five papers so far in different reputed journals. He has also participated in the international conference (Energy Systems 2016) organized by Elsevier in London (UK). His areas of research interest are solar distillation (modeling and experimental), solar thermal collectors, photovoltaics, heat and mass transfer, exergy, CO₂ mitigation, and exergoeconomic analyses.

 Professor Gopal Nath Tiwari, born in Ballia (UP), India, received his higher education from Banaras Hindu University (BHU). Since 1977, he has been actively involved in the teaching and research program at the Centre of Energy Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), Delhi, India. His research interest is in renewable energy sources including solar energy. He has guided 80 Ph.D students and published 600 research papers in international journals of repute. He has authored 22 books published by national and international publishers. He is the co-recipient of the ‘Hariom Ashram Prerit S.S. Bhatnagar’ Award in 1982 and Vigyan Ratna Award by the Council of Science & Technology (CST), UP in the year 2007. He was also a visiting European Fellow in 1997 and had been to the University of Ulster (U.K.) in 1993. Besides, he had been nominated for the International IDEA Award in the past. He is responsible for the development of “Solar Energy Park” at IIT Delhi. Dr. Tiwari had visited many countries namely Italy, Canada, USA, UK, Australia, Sweden, Germany, Greece, France etc. for invited talks, chairing international conferences, as an expert in renewable energy, for presenting research papers etc. He has successfully co-coordinated many research projects funded by the Government of India in recent past. He is the Associate Editor of Solar Energy Journal (SEJ) in the area of Solar Distillation and editor of the International Journal of Energy Research since 2007. He is also the Chief-Editor of Fundamental of Renewable Energy Applications and reviewers of many international journals. He has organized two international conference SOLARIS 2007 and SOLARIS 2012 at IIT Delhi, Delhi and Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi. He is also the Founder President of the Bag Energy Research Society (BERS: www.bers.in) which is responsible for energy education in rural India.