Water plays an important role in all our day to day activities and its consumption is
increasing day by day because of increased living standards of mankind. Some regions of …

This paper reviews various functional materials used in desalination. Desalination of the
abundant seawater resource has emerged as a promising technology to meet the current …

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 …

This paper compares the performance of single basin single slope solar still with and without
water nanofluid. Water nanofluids of Aluminum Oxide (Al 2 O 3), Zinc Oxide (ZnO), Iron …

In this paper, a review is made on the various parameters influencing the productivity of the
solar stills. The researches on the factors improving productivity such as area of absorption …

Scarcity for water exists in many countries even though three-fourth of the earth is covered
by water. The reasons for scarcity of water are worldwide rapid growth of industry and …

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 …

Access to safe, fresh and clean drinking water is one of the major problems in different parts
of the world. Among many water purification technologies solar desalination/distillation …

Many experimental and numerical studies have been carried out on different configurations
of solar stills to optimize the design by investigating the effect of climatic, operational and …

Latent heat energy storage material has been used by many researchers to achieve an
enhancement in the yield of solar still. However, the poor thermal conductivity of Phase …