Author
Nader Rahbar
Other affiliations: Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
Bio: Nader Rahbar is an academic researcher from Islamic Azad University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Solar still & Thermoelectric cooling. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 36 publications receiving 1364 citations. Previous affiliations of Nader Rahbar include Ferdowsi University of Mashhad.
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TL;DR: In this paper, an attempt has been made to produce a portable solar still by using a solar collector, a wall covered with black wool, and water sprinkling system to increase evaporation rate and a thermoelectric cooling device to enhance water condensation All walls are made from Plexiglas to make the still, unbreakable.
230 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, an attempt has been made to design a new type portable thermoelectric solar still (PTSS), which is used to improve the temperature difference between evaporating and condensing zones.
216 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a new improved design portable asymmetrical solar still has been designed, fabricated and tested over six typical summer days (between 27/08/2014 and 07/09/2014) under the real climatic conditions of Semnan (35°33′N, 53°23′E), Iran.
121 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the ability of a 2D CFD (computational fluid dynamic) simulation in estimating the hourly yield of a single-slope solar still.
119 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a numerical study was performed to investigate the effects of nanofluid on the productivity of a stepped solar still and a sensitivity analysis was arranged to determine the sensitivity of the hourly productivity to the height and length of steps.
119 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the recent advances of thermoelectric materials, modeling approaches, and applications, and summarized the achievements in past decade have been summarized and the modeling techniques have been described for both the thermoelement modeling and TEC modeling.
593 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the performance of a solar still equipped with a heat exchanger using nanofluids has been studied both experimentally and theoretically through three key parameters, i.e., freshwater yield, energy efficiency and exergy efficiency.
313 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a volume of fluid (VOF) model was proposed to investigate the potential of Al2O3-water nanofluid to improve the productivity of a single slope solar still.
257 citations