Past, present and future of the active solar distillation system: a comprehensive review

Patel, Mit; Patel, Chetankumar; Panchal, Hitesh

doi:10.1080/01430750.2019.1684996

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“…The enhancement in freshwater yield of solar still can be achieved by using a thermal energy storage medium, incorporation of a porous medium in the absorber, and design modifications of solar still. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Rashidi et al analyzed the entropy generation in the solar still using computational fluid dynamics for the improvement of design. It was found that the entropy generation was increased with an increase in glass and water temperature.…”

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Experimental investigation of single slope solar still with Eucheuma (agar‐agar) fiber for augmentation of freshwater yield: Thermo‐economic analysis

Sampathkumar

Natarajan

2021

Env Prog and Sustain Energy

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The accessibility of pure drinking water is one of the most complex challenges that humankind experiencing around the world. In this study, the experimental investigation has been carried out in the single slope solar still by the incorporation of naturally available Eucheuma fiber in the absorber basin. The Eucheuma fiber has high water absorbing capacity and acts like a wick material. The experimental results on two consecutive days in the month of February 2021 shows that the solar still with agar-agar fiber (SSAAF) has an increase in productivity of 22.06% on Day 1 and 21.05% on Day 2 in comparison with conventional solar still (CSS). The freshwater productivity of SSAAF was 3150 ml/ m 2 /day on Day 1 and 3800 ml/m 2 /day on Day 2, whereas for CSS it was 2600 and 3100 ml/m 2 /day on Day 1 and Day 2, respectively. The thermal efficiency was increased by 10% and 13% on Day 1 and 2 for SSAAF. The economic analysis indicates that SSAAF has a payback period of 4.3 months whereas CSS has 5.

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Experimental investigation of single slope solar still with Eucheuma (agar‐agar) fiber for augmentation of freshwater yield: Thermo‐economic analysis

Sampathkumar

Natarajan

2021

Env Prog and Sustain Energy

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“…Another serious concern that must be addressed is the carbon impact due to conventional energy (Mathioulakis et al 2007;Qiblawey and Banat 2008;Sharon and Reddy 2015;Patel et al 2019;Ahmed et al 2021). The best possible solution is a renewable energy-driven desalination technology which can be accomplished with the help of solar stills.…”

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Performance Evaluation of single slope solar still by the inclusion of Palm Flower powder and micro Phase Change Material (mPCM) for the enhancement of productivity

Sampathkumar¹,

Natarajan

2022

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The objective of the work is to investigate the single slope solar still for the enhancement in productivity by the inclusion of optimum weight of palm flower powder of micro-sized in the absorber basin and optimum weight% of micro-Phase Change Material (mPCM) under the absorber basin. In this regard, the effect of different weights of palm flower powder such as 10, 30, 45, 50, 55, 70, 100, 120 and 150 g in the absorber was analysed. The solar still with 50 g of palm flower powder in the absorber increased the productivity by 37.25% whereas, for 10, 30, 45, 55, 70, 100, 120 and 150 g were 11.85, 24.78, 36.1, 36.8, 34.35, 33.05, 10.25 and -20.22% respectively. The effect of different weight% of micro-sized palm flower powder such as 5, 10, 15 and 20 wt%, in paraffin wax, was investigated. The paraffin wax with 20 wt% of micro-sized palm flower powder has a better thermal conductivity of 0.33 W/mK. The experimentation was carried out with 50 g of micro-sized palm flower powder in the absorber basin and 20 wt% mPCM under the absorber basin solar still (PCMPFP-SS) and Conventional Solar Still (CSS). The overall yield of PCMPFP-SS was 4670 ml/m2-day on day 1 and 4250 ml/m2-day on day 2, for CSS it was 3030 ml/m2-day on day 1 and 2800 ml/m2-day on day 2. It was evaluated that the Cost per Litre of PCMPFP-SS was $ 0.025 and $ 0.032 for CSS.

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Experimental investigation of single-basin solar still using solid staggered fins inserted in paraffin wax PCM bed for enhancing productivity

Suraparaju¹,

Natarajan²

2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Past, present and future of the active solar distillation system: a comprehensive review

Cited by 6 publications

References 52 publications

Experimental investigation of single slope solar still with Eucheuma (agar‐agar) fiber for augmentation of freshwater yield: Thermo‐economic analysis

Experimental investigation of single slope solar still with Eucheuma (agar‐agar) fiber for augmentation of freshwater yield: Thermo‐economic analysis

Performance Evaluation of single slope solar still by the inclusion of Palm Flower powder and micro Phase Change Material (mPCM) for the enhancement of productivity

Experimental investigation of single-basin solar still using solid staggered fins inserted in paraffin wax PCM bed for enhancing productivity

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