Experimental study of energy and exergy analysis of the effect of using a solar concentrator on the performance of a pot solar desalination plant

In this study, experimental energy and exergy efficiency analysis of a solar desalination have been presented in two cases; with concentrator and without concentrator. Solar concentrator was used to increase production of clean water. Because production rate of clean water is slow in solar desalination devices. Hence, a solar device with ability of adding concentrator was designed and performed.   In experimental investigations, amount of produced water has been measured in periods of one hour and by using ambient parameters, these two cases have been compared each other. Results show that the amount of produced water increases about 40% in case of with concentrator rather than without concentrator. Also, energy and exergy analysis of solar desalination display rising of efficiencies in case of with concentrator, as energy and exergy efficiencies grows up to 30% and 15.19%, respectively.