PERFORMA DESALINASI AIR LAUT TENAGA SURYA TIPE WICK METODE KAPILER

Abstract

How to get clean water using the seawater desalination process into pure water in coastal communities. Basin is a sea water desalination tool in the form of a tub or bowl to hold sea water. The basin used in this study was shaped like a tub using a cover made of glass with a thickness of 0.003 m, a slope of 25o and consisted of two types of basins in which one consisted of three levels and the other two levels. From the test results with the variation of the cover glass distance and level variations in the basin showed that the productivity of pure water at the distance of the glass cover 0.105 m basin three levels more is 416 ml while at the distance of the glass cover 0.11 m the productivity of pure water in the basin was two levels more which is 450 ml. The most pure water productivity found in the distance of 0.11 m cover glass, either a three-level basin or a two-level basin with a total  pure water productivity of 667 ml. Whereas in the variation in the number of levels in the basin, pure water productivity found in the two-level basin, 450 ml with a desalination efficiency of 26.07%.