There is a great variety of solar vapour, cycle refrigerators including some
straightforward designs working on a 24 h. Cycle but their, use is not
.
widespread A better way to cool buildings in hot climates is again to use passive
designs (CF.? Section 6.3). These either harness the natural flows of cooling
air (in humid areas), store coolness from night time or. Winter (in dry areas)
.Or in some cases automatically generate a cooling flow by convection.
A comprehensive account of the relevant, design principles. With examples
is, given in the Manual of Tropical Building (Koenigsberger et al. 1974).
For cooling foodstuffs etc, offgrid,. At least in, small quantities commercial
compression refrigerators and freezers, are available powered by solar cells
(see. Section 7.9).At present these are economically attractive only in areas
remote from conventional electricity supplies.
6.6 Water desalination To. Support a community in arid or, desert conditions potable i.e. Fit, to
drink water must, be supplied for, domestic use and. Other water for crops
and general purposes. Many desert regions (e.g. Central Australia) have
regions of salt or brackish. Water, undergroundAnd it is usually much
cheaper to purify this water than to transport fresh water from afar. Since
deserts usually have. Large insolation it is, reasonable to use solar energy to
perform this purification by distillation.
The most straightforward. Approach is to use a basin solar still
(Figure 6.8). This is an internally blackened basin containing a shallow
depth of. Impure water.Over this is a transparent vapour-tight cover, that
completely encloses the space above the basin. The cover is sloped. Towards
the collection channel. In operation solar radiation, passes through the cover
and warms, the water some of which. Then evaporates. The water vapour
diffuses and moves, convectively upwards where it condenses on the cooler
cover.The condensed drops of water then slide down the cover into the
catchment trough.
Example 6.4 shows that substantial areas. Of glass are required to produce
enough fresh water for even a small community.
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