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Application of Nano Particle/Fluid in Performance Enhancement of Solar Still: A Review

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Nanotechnology for Energy and Water (ICNEW 2017)

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Water is fundamental need to survive life and the origin of human being is based on water only. The delivery of drinking water is fetching a key issue in many regions of the world. Among the non-conventional techniques to desalinate hard water or brine, is sun based refining i.e. solar desalination. The solar still is the most efficient approach to achieve this target. Solar still has low yield, however it is safe and pure, and it can be used to supply the drinking water in remote areas. Improvement of the design of conventional solar stills to improve the productivity has always been the concern of researchers and engineers in the field of solar energy. In this review article nanoparticle/fluids based solar still is discussed in brief. Heat transfer improvement in solar still is one of the challenging issues of compact designs and energy saving techniques, and the use of nanoparticles/fluids greatly improves the rate of evaporation.

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This research was supported by Postdoctoral Fellowship of Dr. Anil Kumar from Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Thailand. Corresponding author is highly grateful to PSU, Hat Yai, Thailand for their support.

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    Anil Kumar & Perapong Tekasakul

  2. Department of Energy (Energy Centre), Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, 462 003, India

    Anil Kumar & Prashant Singh Chauhan

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Kumar, A., Tekasakul, P., Chauhan, P.S. (2018). Application of Nano Particle/Fluid in Performance Enhancement of Solar Still: A Review. In: Anand, G., Pandey, J., Rana, S. (eds) Nanotechnology for Energy and Water . ICNEW 2017. Springer Proceedings in Energy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63085-4_1

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