Augmentation and evaluation of solar still performance: a comprehensive review

A Elsheikh, KA Hammoodi, AMM Ibrahim, AHI Mourad… - Desalination, 2024 - Elsevier
Solar desalination is an eco-friendly technique for freshwater supply in arid regions, thus
becoming more and more promising. Solar desalination could fulfill the requirements of the …

A review on evaporation improvement of solar still desalination using porous material

S Shoeibi, M Saemian, H Kargarsharifabad… - … Communications in Heat …, 2022 - Elsevier
Recently, many studies have focused on desalination systems using solar energy sources
due to low energy costs, the feasibility of usage in most weathers and no use of fossil fuels …

Energy, exergy, economic, environmental analysis for solar still using partially coated condensing cover with thermoelectric cover cooling

NM Shatar, MFM Sabri, MFM Salleh, MH Ani - Journal of cleaner production, 2023 - Elsevier
The declining freshwater resources can be overcome using thermal desalination methods
such as solar still. However, the productivity of a solar still is highly dependent on the …

Sustainable solar desalination through interfacial evaporation: Integration of chitosan aerogel-impregnated graphene nanoplatelets solar evaporator and phase …

T Arunkumar, Y Suh, HW Lim, S Christopher, SJ Lee - Desalination, 2024 - Elsevier
Solar energy offers several advantages for desalination, including affordability, eco-
friendliness and sustainability. However, certain factors have influence on the evaporation …

Retrofitting a thermoelectric-based solar still integrated with an evacuated tube collector utilizing an antibacterial-magnetic hybrid nanofluid

G Sadeghi, S Nazari - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
Providing sufficient potable water using solar energy is a promising method; however,
existence of legionella bacteria, causing pneumonia is prevalent in the solar systems …

Reversed vapor generation with Janus fabric evaporator and comprehensive thermal management for efficient interfacial solar distillation

C Gao, B Zhou, J Li, Y Chen, Q Wang, J Mao… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Interfacial solar steam generation, with high energy efficiency, promotes the solar
desalination technology to a new era. However, the problem of low freshwater yield in …

Augmenting the performance of conventional solar still through the nano-doped black paint (NDBP) coating on absorber

PM Kumar, CS Kumar, K Muralidharan… - Materials Today …, 2021 - Elsevier
Solar still has been proposed as a potential solution to tap potable water from the brackish
water in recent times. The absorber of the solar still is playing a pivotal role on the …

Optimal design for floating solar still by structural modification: A review

Z Sun, L Zhang, L Liu, W Chen, G **e, J Zha, X Wei - Desalination, 2023 - Elsevier
Floating solar distillation is a newly emerging and sustainable technology for producing
clean water. However, recent outdoor tests of the floating solar still produced lower …

An experimental study on eco-friendly and cost-effective natural materials for productivity enhancement of single slope solar still

SK Natarajan, SK Suraparaju, RM Elavarasan… - … Science and Pollution …, 2022 - Springer
The proposed research study aims to improve the productivity of solar still (SS) by using low-
cost and eco-friendly materials. The aforementioned objective was achieved by enhancing …

Performance enhancement of stepped basin solar still based on OSELM with traversal tree for higher energy adaptive control

AM Gandhi, S Shanmugan, S Gorjian, CI Pruncu… - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
A basin solar still precision design is regularly not reachable. To solve this issue, the basin
area is coated with a nanolayer which allows to stimulate and control the multifaceted of the …