Recent advancements in latent heat phase change materials and their applications for thermal energy storage and buildings: A state of the art review

F Hassan, F Jamil, A Hussain, HM Ali… - Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Phase change materials (PCMs) have received substantial interest for their ability to store
and release latent heat for energy conservation and thermal control purposes. PCMs are …

Phase change materials integrated solar desalination system: An innovative approach for sustainable and clean water production and storage

R Kumar, AK Pandey, M Samykano, B Aljafari… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
The demand for fresh water in today's world is rising continually due to the increase in
population and rise in industrial developments. Solar Desalination is one of the sustainable …

A coupled artificial neural network with artificial rabbits optimizer for predicting water productivity of different designs of solar stills

AO Alsaiari, EB Moustafa, H Alhumade… - … in Engineering Software, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, a coupled multi-layer perceptrons (MLP) model with an artificial rabbits
optimizer (ARO) is developed to predict the water productivity of different designs of solar …

[HTML][HTML] Investigation and performance analysis of solar still with energy storage materials: An energy-exergy efficiency analysis

D Mevada, H Panchal, M Ahmadein, ME Zayed… - Case Studies in Thermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Researchers have attempted different Energy storage materials (ESM) in solar stills (SS) to
improve distillate yield. In this experimental work, an attempt was made to increase the …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] Productivity forecasting of solar distiller integrated with evacuated tubes and external condenser using artificial intelligence model and moth-flame optimizer

AH Elsheikh, H Panchal, M Ahmadein… - Case Studies in Thermal …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper aims at developing an artificial intelligence model to forecast the water yield of a
modified solar distiller integrated with evacuated tubes and an external condenser. The …

Improving the tubular solar still performance using square and circular hollow fins with phase change materials

M Abdelgaied, Y Zakaria, AE Kabeel, FA Essa - Journal of Energy Storage, 2021 - Elsevier
Tubular solar still has large evaporative and condensing surface areas compared to the
conventional single slope solar still. The current study aims at improving the performance of …

Review on phase change materials for solar energy storage applications

R Naveenkumar, M Ravichandran… - … Science and Pollution …, 2022 - Springer
The energy storage application plays a vital role in the utilization of the solar energy
technologies. There are various types of the energy storage applications are available in 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 …

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 …