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 …

[HTML][HTML] Pyramid solar distillers: a comprehensive review of recent techniques

KA Hammoodi, HA Dhahad, WH Alawee… - Results in …, 2023 - Elsevier
The most interesting themes worldwide are those relating to sustainable water and energy
supplies. They have a significant impact on any society's economic wellbeing. Desalination …

Utilization of LSTM neural network for water production forecasting of a stepped solar still with a corrugated absorber plate

AH Elsheikh, VP Katekar, OL Muskens… - Process Safety and …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study introduces a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network model to forecast the
freshwater yield of a stepped solar still and a conventional one. The stepped solar still was …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental enhancement of tubular solar still performance using rotating cylinder, nanoparticles' coating, parabolic solar concentrator, and phase change …

FA Essa, AS Abdullah, WH Alawee, A Alarjani… - Case Studies in Thermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
It is known to us that the problem of freshwater shortage is constantly exacerbated by the
rapid population increase and the great diversity of different industries that need water to …

Improving the tubular solar still performance using square and circular hollow fins with phase change materials

M Abdelgaied, Y Zakaria, AE Kabeel, FA Essa - Journal of Energy Storage, 2021 - Elsevier
Tubular solar still has large evaporative and condensing surface areas compared to the
conventional single slope solar still. The current study aims at improving the performance of …

Machine learning-based prediction and augmentation of dish solar distiller performance using an innovative convex stepped absorber and phase change material …

A Bamasag, FA Essa, ZM Omara, E Bahgat… - Process Safety and …, 2022 - Elsevier
As well known, the solar distiller is one of the introduced solutions to the freshwater shortage
problem, but it is demerited by the low freshwater output. In this paper, a design modification …

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 …

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 …

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 …