A comprehensive review on performance improvement of solar desalination with applications of heat pipes

S Shoeibi, SAA Mirjalily, H Kargarsharifabad… - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
Solar desalination is one of the crucial methods to convert brackish water to freshwater. The
major issue of solar desalination is the low water production rate, and for this reason …

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 …

Influence of PV/T waste heat on water productivity and electricity generation of solar stills using heat pipes and thermoelectric generator: An experimental study and …

S Shoeibi, M Saemian, M Khiadani… - Energy Conversion and …, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, numerous studies have been performed to improve the evaporation rate of
solar stills and the electrical power of the photovoltaic module. In this paper, an experimental …

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 …

A renewable energy-driven thermoelectric-utilized solar still with external condenser loaded by silver/nanofluid for simultaneously water disinfection and desalination

SM Parsa, A Rahbar, MH Koleini, S Aberoumand… - Desalination, 2020 - Elsevier
The present study examined the performance of different modifications of identical solar stills
(SSs) with heating/cooling and nanofluid. The first system is SS with thermoelectric heating …

A review of thermoelectric cooling: Materials, modeling and applications

D Zhao, G Tan - Applied thermal engineering, 2014 - Elsevier
This study reviews the recent advances of thermoelectric materials, modeling approaches,
and applications. Thermoelectric cooling systems have advantages over conventional …

A review on using thermoelectric cooling, heating, and electricity generators in solar energy applications

S Shoeibi, H Kargarsharifabad, M Sadi… - Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Parallel with the rapid advances of solar technologies as the very crucial components of
future energy systems, much interest has also been observed in scientists and commercial …

A comprehensive review on a passive (phase change materials) and an active (thermoelectric cooler) battery thermal management system and their limitations

ARM Siddique, S Mahmud, B Van Heyst - Journal of Power Sources, 2018 - Elsevier
A battery thermal management system (BTMS) has become an essential part in battery-
driven electric vehicles (EVs) in order to remove the generated heat from the battery which …

Volume of fluid model to simulate the nanofluid flow and entropy generation in a single slope solar still

S Rashidi, S Akar, M Bovand, R Ellahi - Renewable Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper proposes volume of fluid (VOF) model to investigate the potential of Al 2 O 3-
water nanofluid to improve the productivity of a single slope solar still. Accordingly, VOF …

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 …