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 …
In present study, performance of two nanofluid-based solar stills at the peak of Mount Tochal nearly 4000 m and city of Tehran during four consecutive days in July 2018 for the first time …
This experimental study elucidates the performance of copper oxide (Cu 2 O) nanofluid in a single slope solar still integrated with external thermoelectric glass cover cooling channel …
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 …
Freshwater and energy are indispensable resources for economic and industrial developments, they are key global challenges nowadays. In recent years, the emphasis has …
K Selvaraj, A Natarajan - Desalination, 2018 - Elsevier
Water scarcity is a major threat for future as the fresh water resources are being exploited and polluted rapidly by mankind. Hence, converting the brackish, saline water in to pure …
In this paper, a numerical study is performed to investigate the effects of nanofluid on the productivity of a stepped solar still. Moreover, a sensitivity analysis is arranged to determine …
AK Kaviti, A Yadav, A Shukla - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
Two major challenges for human society today are shortage of fresh water and shortage of conventional energy. Solar still is the best method to convert saline, brackish water into fresh …
Around 97% of the total water available on the earth is saline or brackish and hence, not suitable for direct consumption. There are number of distillation process to convert the saline …