Abstract:
This paper aims to present a study of the testing of a pyramid solar distiller. The developed distiller consists of 4 triangular transparent glasses with a square rectangular tray constructed in a pyramid shape. The
black copper plate was used to absorb and accumulate solar radiation. From the experiments, it was found that the developed distiller produced the average distillation rate of 2.4 Litre/m 2 /day. The average efficiency was 34 percents at solar radiation intensity of 17.8 MJ/m 2 /day. The average hourly distillation was 0.25 Litre/m 2 /hour, which was approximately 27 percents, which was less than the calculated estimation. Finally, when comparing an efficiency of the solar distiller developed for this study to other distillers, it was revealed that the produced distillation rate per average daily solar radiation was approximately 17 percents more than average.