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Recent Progress in the Design of Solar Still: An Understanding and Comparison

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Advances in Engineering Design (FLAME 2022)

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Abstract

In last two decades, significant efforts have been done to utilize solar energy for the production of drinkable water from saline or dirty water. This is preferred due its availability and renewability. Solar desalination concept is preferred due to its availability and renewability. This has potential to provide sustainable solution to solve water at the lowest cost and lower maintenance expenses. Sustained and concerted efforts are done worldwide to tap the available solar energy because of its free availability and also our conventional energy resources are depleted at faster rate. Continuous concerted endeavour is being taken by the researcher to further improve desalinated water yield per day. Convectional solar still has lower yield rate. The daily water yield can be increased further by using additional heat in the solar still by employing addition solar collectors. In this paper, application of addition solar collector has been modelled. Application of additional solar collector to further enhance the productivity of the solar still. Different modifications and the effect of modifications on the productivity of single as well as double slope solar still are vividly discussed. Application of phase change material in the basin has been also preferred by the researchers to utilize the solar still when the solar energy is not available.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, 201313, India

    Priyansh Gupta, Gopal Nandan, Syed M. I. Nakshbandi, Vishal Gaur & Anoop Kumar Shukla

  2. Government College of Engineering, Karad, 415124, India

    Ramakant Shrivastava

  3. B. P. Mandal College of Engineering, Madhepura, 852113, India

    Arnav Kumar

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Gupta, P. et al. (2023). Recent Progress in the Design of Solar Still: An Understanding and Comparison. In: Sharma, R., Kannojiya, R., Garg, N., Gautam, S.S. (eds) Advances in Engineering Design. FLAME 2022. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3033-3_11

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