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Heat source

At the moment there are solar panels in the village. These panels provide enough energy for the prototype, and we are allowed to use the panels. If the project will be scaled up, more solar panels must be installed to provide the distillation units with energy.

To use this energy to produce steam, a boiler is used. As calculated before, 4,17 kg/hr steam need to be produced. A boiler with a power of 3,01kW would be sufficient to do so but to be safe a 5kW boiler is ordered. Almech Enterprise made the design with these requirements, so the exact dimensions are not known by us.