Pyramid solar still: a comprehensive review

KH Nayi, KV Modi - Renewable and sustainable energy reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Adequate quality and reliability of drinking water is vital for all inhabitants and for agriculture
and industrial applications. Solar desalination is impactful method for getting potable water …

Effect of various factors and diverse approaches to enhance the performance of solar stills: a comprehensive review

LD Jathar, S Ganesan, K Shahapurkar… - Journal of Thermal …, 2022 - Springer
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 …

First approach on nanofluid-based solar still in high altitude for water desalination and solar water disinfection (SODIS)

SM Parsa, A Rahbar, MH Koleini, YD Javadi, M Afrand… - Desalination, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

Performance improvement of a single slope solar still by employing thermoelectric cooling channel and copper oxide nanofluid: an experimental study

S Nazari, H Safarzadeh, M Bahiraei - Journal of cleaner production, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

Energy-matrices, exergy, economic, environmental, exergoeconomic, enviroeconomic, and heat transfer (6E/HT) analysis of two passive/active solar still water …

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 …

A comprehensive review of tubular solar still designs, performance, and economic analysis

AE Kabeel, K Harby, M Abdelgaied, A Eisa - Journal of cleaner production, 2020 - Elsevier
Freshwater and energy are indispensable resources for economic and industrial
developments, they are key global challenges nowadays. In recent years, the emphasis has …

Factors influencing the performance and productivity of solar stills-A review

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 …

Steps optimization and productivity enhancement in a nanofluid cascade solar still

S Rashidi, M Bovand, N Rahbar, JA Esfahani - Renewable Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …

Inclined solar still designs: A review

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 …

Comparative Performance and parametric study of solar still: A review

SK Singh, SC Kaushik, VV Tyagi, SK Tyagi - … Energy Technologies and …, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …