An overview of water desalination systems integrated with renewable energy sources

ZM Ghazi, SWF Rizvi, WM Shahid, AM Abdulhameed… - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
Nowadays, the growing world population, climate change, pollution, rising consumer
demand, and resource exploitation have contributed to a freshwater shortage. Hence, water …

Progress and performance of multi-stage solar still–A review

G Peng, SW Sharshir - Desalination, 2023 - Elsevier
Solar desalination provides a clean and economical way for freshwater supply, thus
becoming more and more promising. In this work, the research progress of multi-stage solar …

[HTML][HTML] Application of advanced energy storage materials in direct solar desalination: a state of art review

F Jamil, F Hassan, S Shoeibi, M Khiadani - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2023 - Elsevier
Storage of the thermal energy of solar intensity has a significant effect on the efficiency of
desalination systems at nighttime, when solar intensity is not available. Solar energy …

Enhancement and prediction of a stepped solar still productivity integrated with paraffin wax enriched with nano-additives

E Banoqitah, R Sathyamurthy, EB Moustafa… - Case Studies in Thermal …, 2023 - Elsevier
The present study deals with the emhancement of thermophysical properties of paraffin wax
using Silver nanoparticles and to study the feasibility of its application in a stepped solar still …

Thermo-economic performance improvement of hemispherical solar still using wick material with V-corrugated basin and two different energy storage materials

SW Sharshir, MA Omara, G Elsisi, A Joseph… - Solar Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Solar still is a developing solar desalination method that has been introduced to face the
shortage of freshwater with low energy consumption. However, this method is challenged by …

Performance prediction of aluminum and polycarbonate solar stills with air cavity using an optimized neural network model by golden jackal optimizer

E Ghandourah, YS Prasanna, AH Elsheikh… - Case Studies in Thermal …, 2023 - Elsevier
Solar stills (SS) are simple eco-friendly desalination devices that exploit solar energy to
obtain freshwater from seawater. In this study, a hybrid artificial intelligence model is …

Performance evaluation of a modified pyramid solar still employing wick, reflectors, glass cooling and TiO2 nanomaterial

SW Sharshir, MA Rozza, M Elsharkawy, MM Youns… - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work pyramid-shaped two solar still units were tested experimentally, one of them is a
traditional unit and the other is a modified pyramid solar still unit with wick material …

Investigation on solar still with integration of solar cooker to enhance productivity: Experimental, exergy, and economic analysis

G Angappan, S Pandiaraj, AJ Alrubaie… - Journal of Water …, 2023 - Elsevier
The use of solar still combined with solar energy applications including photovoltaic
modules, solar collectors, and solar heaters can significantly impact the system's …

A new trapezoidal pyramid solar still design with multi thermal enhancers

SW Sharshir, MA Rozza, A Joseph, AW Kandeal… - Applied Thermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Currently, many efforts have been conducted to augment the solar desalination systems'
performance, especially solar stills, as a participation in solving the water shortage and …

[HTML][HTML] Investigation of a modified double slope solar still integrated with nanoparticle-mixed phase change materials: energy, exergy, exergo-economic …

SS Tuly, MS Islam, R Hassan, BK Das… - Case Studies in Thermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite being simpler, cheaper, and less energy-intensive than other desalination
processes, solar stills have apparent shortcomings in terms of productivity. Such a limitation …