A comprehensive review of direct solar desalination techniques and its advancements

VK Chauhan, SK Shukla, JV Tirkey… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
Demand of fresh water is rising continuously because of increase in population. This has
created an undue burden on limited reserves of fresh water. Desalination is one of the …

Effect of various factors and diverse approaches to enhance the performance of solar stills: a comprehensive review

LD Jathar, S Ganesan, K Shahapurkar… - Journal of Thermal …, 2022 - Springer
The need for fresh drinking water is increasing rapidly, and drinking water availability
reduces day by day. Solar desalination is a viable option to change saltwater to fresh …

Low-cost bilayered structure for improving the performance of solar stills: Performance/cost analysis and water yield prediction using machine learning

AH Elsheikh, S Shanmugan, R Sathyamurthy… - Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper aims to enhance the performance of conventional solar still (CSS) using a low
cost heat localization bilayered structure (HLBS). The HLBS consists of a bottom supporting …

Energy-matrices, exergy, economic, environmental, exergoeconomic, enviroeconomic, and heat transfer (6E/HT) analysis of two passive/active solar still water …

SM Parsa, A Rahbar, D Javadi, MH Koleini… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
In spite of numerous valuable researches for evaluating the effect of different parameters for
analyzing exergy/environmental/economic/energy-matrices/heat transfer of solar stills; the …

Experimental investigation of a solar still equipped with an external heat storage system using phase change materials and heat pipes

M Faegh, MB Shafii - Desalination, 2017 - Elsevier
In this study, a novel idea of storing the latent heat of condensing vapor in solar stills by
means of phase change materials (PCMs) as a thermal storage is experimentally …

Improving the performance of tubular solar still using rotating drum–experimental and theoretical investigation

FA Essa, AS Abdullah, ZM Omara - Process Safety and Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the current work, we introduced, experimentally and theoretically, a modified technique of
reducing the water depth as much as possible inside the tubular solar still using a rotating …

Productivity enhancement of single-slope solar still with novel bottom finned absorber basin inserted in phase change material (PCM): techno-economic and enviro …

SK Suraparaju, SK Natarajan - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2021 - Springer
Solar still is one of the economic and eminent ways of desalinating the available
sea/brackish water into potable water. However, the distillate output from the solar still is …

A review of integrating solar collectors to solar still

R Sathyamurthy, SA El-Agouz, PK Nagarajan… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
Water is one of the important sources for the survival of living species on the earth. As earth
having only a small amount of water resources for drinking purpose people in rural and …

A review on solar stills for brine desalination

G **ao, X Wang, M Ni, F Wang, W Zhu, Z Luo, K Cen - Applied Energy, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper attempts to categorize solar stills into six sorts based on the design guidelines
used in each device. The properties of these design guidelines are detailed and evaluated …

Enhancing tubular solar still performance using novel PCM-tubes

M Elashmawy, M Alhadri, MMZ Ahmed - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
The present study developed a novel PCM-tubes geometry to be used inside a tubular solar
still with parabolic solar concentrator. Paraffin wax is filled inside 12-aluminum tubes …