A thermodynamic review on solar stills

A Saxena, E Cuce, AE Kabeel, M Abdelgaied, V Goel - Solar Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The supply and quality of water is still a problem in undeveloped or developing nations.
Researchers from different countries have developed various distillation or desalination …

Direct solar steam generation system for clean water production

P Zhang, Q Liao, H Yao, Y Huang, H Cheng… - Energy Storage …, 2019 - Elsevier
The social development, economic growth and booming population have caused
aggravated water pollution, making clean water shortage an urgent issue to be solved. In …

Improving the performance of trays solar still using wick corrugated absorber, nano-enhanced phase change material and photovoltaics-powered heaters

AS Abdullah, ZM Omara, FA Essa, MM Younes… - Journal of Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, an experimental work has been conducted to augment the performance of trays
solar still. The absorber surface area and rate of heat transfer between the absorber and the …

Performance evaluation of a solar desalination-hot water system using heat pipe vacuum tube parabolic trough solar collector–An experimental study with Taguchi …

B Omidi, N Rahbar, H Kargarsharifabad… - Energy Conversion and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The utilization of renewable energy to generate hot water and distilled water can
considerably reduce pollution. This study looked at a hybrid system that used a parabolic …

Utilizing a single slope solar still with copper heating coil, external condenser, phase change material, along with internal and external reflectors—experimental study

AS Abdullah, WH Alawee, SA Mohammed… - Journal of Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
The increasing growth of industrialization and population has led to a global shortage of
drinkable water, which has compelled scientists to find another approach for supplying this …

Enhancing the wick solar still performance using half barrel and corrugated absorbers

MM Younes, AS Abdullah, FA Essa, ZM Omara… - Process Safety and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The performance of tilted wick solar stills including new absorber configurations have been
investigated. Four solar stills are built, the first one is flat wick solar still (FWSS), the second …

Effects of nano-enhanced phase change material and nano-coated on the performance of solar stills

S Shoeibi, H Kargarsharifabad, N Rahbar - Journal of Energy Storage, 2021 - Elsevier
Solar desalination is a widely used system for producing drinking water from solar energy.
Freshwater production with renewable energy and without environmental pollution are the …

Wall-suspended trays inside stepped distiller with Al2O3/paraffin wax mixture and vapor suction: experimental implementation

FA Essa, ZM Omara, AS Abdullah, S Shanmugan… - Journal of Energy …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the present work, we conducted some modifications in the design and operation of
stepped distiller to improve its performance. The stepped distiller was modified by installing …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancing trays solar still performance using wick finned absorber, nano-enhanced PCM

AS Abdullah, ZM Omara, FA Essa, UF Alqsair… - Alexandria Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Solar stills are famous techniques of solar desalination methods, but they suffer from the low
daily water production. In this work, an experimental study was conducted to enhance the …