Experimental evaluation of solar still efficiencies as a basic step in treatment of wastewater

The present study investigates a unit for making use of freshwater in a kiln in a practical manner. At first, in this unit, the saline wastewater flowing out of the MED unit in Mobin Petrochemical Complex enters a gravitational bed and is subjected to preliminary treatment. In the next stage, the same saline wastewater enters the first pretreatment reactor for undergoing a coagulation procedure; then, it enters a second biological reactor for undergoing both coagulation and biological treatment. Afterwards, the output current of the biological reactor enters a solar pond for the separation of the dissolved salt in the wastewater, for which, it enters an antiseptic system that uses ultraviolet (UV) for treatment. Finally, the saline wastewater is transformed into a soft treated current. In the present study, the performance of a solar condensation unit installed on the path of the output wastewater of the UV antiseptic unit has been examined. In this study, the thermal output, conduction output, and freshwater production output have been altogether subjected to practical evaluation. The results offered herein are indicative of the relative error rates equal to about 7.2% and 4.9% for thermal output of day and night, respectively. Moreover, the conduction efficiency relative errors have been about 7% and 5.6% for day and night, respectively. In addition, on average, the relative cumulative error of the thermal energy storage substrate's output was about 3.5% per day over a month.