Solar stills: A comprehensive review of designs, performance and material advances
By D. Dsilva Winfred Rufuss, S. Iniyan, L. Suganthi, P. Davies. 2016
253 citations recorded by the source corpus.
The demand for fresh water production is growing day by day with the increase in world population and with industrial growth. Use of desalination technology is increasing to meet this demand. Among desalination technologies, solar stills require low maintenance and are readily affordable; however their productivity is limited. This paper aims to give a detailed review about the various types of solar stills, covering passive and active designs, single- and multi-effect types, and the various modifications for improved productivity including reflectors, heat storage, fins, collectors, condensers, and mechanisms for enhancing heat and mass transfer. Photovoltaic–thermal and greenhouse type solar stills are also covered. Material advances in the area of phase change materials and nanocomposites are very promising to enhance further performance; future research should be carried out in these and other areas for the greater uptake of solar still technology.
Subfields: Mechanical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
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Citations in the corpus
- Energy, exergy, economic and enviro-economic (4E) analysis of gravel coarse aggregate sensible heat storage-assisted single-slope solar still (2020, background): “Many research and development initiatives have been made on solar stills to improve its thermodynamic performance using sensible heat storage materials (such as sand, gravel, granite and fins) [2, 3], latent heat storage materials (paraffin wax and regenerative materials such as cotton and jute clot”
- Effects of nanoparticle-enhanced phase change material (NPCM) on solar still productivity (2018, background): “Materials 147 Paraffin and acetamide were earlier found to be the best PCM for application in solar stills 148 (Dsilva Winfred Rufuss et al., 2016; Sharma et al., 2002).”