Augmentation and evaluation of solar still performance: a comprehensive review

A Elsheikh, KA Hammoodi, AMM Ibrahim, AHI Mourad… - Desalination, 2024 - Elsevier
Solar desalination is an eco-friendly technique for freshwater supply in arid regions, thus
becoming more and more promising. Solar desalination could fulfill the requirements of the …

A comprehensive review of direct solar desalination techniques and its advancements

VK Chauhan, SK Shukla, JV Tirkey… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
Demand of fresh water is rising continuously because of increase in population. This has
created an undue burden on limited reserves of fresh water. Desalination is one of the …

Increasing the productivity of modified cords pyramid solar still using electric heater and various wick materials

AS Abdullah, WH Alawee, SA Mohammed… - Process Safety and …, 2023 - Elsevier
One of the problems that the world is increasingly facing day by day is the problem of lack of
potable water. Solar stills are one of the ideal solutions for places far from urbanization and …

Effect of water depth on a novel absorber plate of pyramid solar still coated with TiO2 nano black paint

AE Kabeel, R Sathyamurthy, SW Sharshir… - Journal of cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this study, the absorber plate of a new pyramidal basin type solar still is coated with TiO 2
nanoparticles doped in black paint on the basin to analyze the performance under the …

Improving the performance of pyramid solar still using rotating four cylinders and three electric heaters

WH Alawee, SA Mohammed, HA Dhahad… - Process Safety and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The world suffers from the potable water shortage problem. Solar still is a simple device
used to convert the brackish water into a drinkable water. We proposed a new modification …

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 …

Enhancement of pyramid solar distiller performance using reflectors, cooling cycle, and dangled cords of wicks

FA Essa, WH Alawee, SA Mohammed, AS Abdullah… - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
A new working mechanism of the wick in the pyramid solar distiller was proposed. The cords
wick pyramid solar still (CWPSS) had a parallel upper basin liner with a number of cracks …

Impact of utilizing hollow copper circular fins and glass wool insulation on the performance enhancement of pyramid solar still unit: an experimental approach

MJR Asadabadi, M Sheikholeslami - Solar Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Desalination of salt and contaminated water, which is widely used in remote areas, is difficult
due to high construction and maintenance costs. So, solar still units by using a free energy …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling and optimization of working conditions of pyramid solar still with different nanoparticles using response surface methodology

WM Farouk, AS Abdullah, SA Mohammed… - Case Studies in Thermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
The present work introduces formulating a mathematical modeling to predict the thermal
performance of pyramid solar distiller (PSD) using the technique of response surface …

[HTML][HTML] An experimental comparison study between four different designs of solar stills

HM Hussen, MM Younes, WH Alawee… - Case Studies in Thermal …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this experimental work, four different solar stills (SSs) have been tested. The SS systems
are conventional SS (CSS), Double Slope SS (DSSS), Pyramid SS (PSS) and Tubular SS …