Investigation of thermodynamic properties of solar ponds

Solar energy is a energy source which is clean, renewable and unlimited. Therefore, development of systems working with solar energy and increased in their performances are important. One of the systems working with solar energy is solar ponds. Solar ponds consist of three different zones. This zones have salty water layers with different concentrations. The most density salty water zone is bottom of the pond and it stores solar energy form of heat. One of factors that affect parts of storing the heat is heat loss which stems from internal zones as well. This heat losses comes into existence with conduction, convection and salt?s molecular diffusion. In this study, it is going to be examined thermodynamics properties of salty water layer at inner zones. Besides, it is going to be determined heat loss that salt causes molecular diffusion and make layers stay stable. With this purpose, the diffusion of the inner zones is determined depending on internal dispersion heat via one dimonsional mathematical model salt the diffusion of salt molecules As a results, diffusion heat loss of a cyclindrical model solar pond is calculated both experimental and theoretically.