Abstract
Water is critical and inevitable for all forms of life, which is available in copious but not suitable for direct ingestion. Also, the existing technologies are costly, bungling, and energy inefficient. They trip on fossils fuel which is infecting. The technology we are considering here exploits direct solar energy for water desalination. This greener technology further concentrates on the latent heat storage through phase change materials (PCMs). The PCMs are profusely available at reasonable rates. The technology transition will reduce the carbon footprint safeguarding the energy security and environmental sustainability.
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The author (Abhishek Anand) is highly obliged to the University Grants Commission (UGC) & Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India, New Delhi for providing the Junior Research Fellowship (JRF). Further, authors are also thankful to Council of Science and Technolog, UP (Reference No. CST 3012-dt.26-12-2016) for providing research grants to carry out the work at the institute.
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Anand, A., Kant, K., Shukla, A., Sharma, A. (2019). Latent Heat Storage for Solar Still Applications. In: Kumar, A., Prakash, O. (eds) Solar Desalination Technology. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6887-5_14
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