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The solar still is the one of the good and cost effective method for obtaining the fresh water from contaminated water. Hence for increasing the performance of solar still it is necessary to model and investigate the effect of different parameters as condensing cover. In this paper two condensing covers at inclination 150 and 300 slope studied to analyze the effect on rate of evaporation. Simulation is carried out from 40-600C with 20C interval. For 150 and 300 inclination various contours have been plotted and studied for each simulation. There is a good agreement between simulated data and available experimental data. Hence CFD is powerful tool in design of solar still and studying effective parameters on the performance.

Keywords

CFD; Solar Still; Inclination.

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