A Review on Solar Desalination Still Designs

Abstract

The modern state-of-the-art techniques involved in the human community is continuously been challenged for energy and fresh drinking water needs. To an extent, efforts made by researchers have tried to address the urgency of the orthodox methods involving solar still technology. However, many of the limitations involved in different types of solar stills include lean of glass, area of absorbing plate, and volume of water. The major implication of maintaining the required water volume in the conventional method is rectified to some extent in inclined stills. Hence, many of the recent developments in still design inculcate the knowledge in the application of wicks and steps in the container to maintain the desired efficiency. For water desalination techniques involving the above-mentioned technology, the influential promise of trusting with the renewable sources of energy like solar, wind, geothermal, hydraulic, biomass is discussed in detail. In this review, Present research is a try to present the current state and feasibility of applications of various still designs to desalinate the water from salts to convert into freshwater in order to enhance the productive capacity of suggested methodologies.