Influence of basin water depth and energy storage materials on productivity of solar still: A review. (2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Nougriaya, Sourabh Kumar; Chopra, M.K.; Gupta, Bhupendra; Baredar, Prashant; Parmar, Hemant
• Is Part Of: Materials today. Volume 44:Part 1(2021)
• Page Start: 1589
• Page End: 1603
• Publication Date: 2021
• Subjects: Solar still -- Basin water depth -- Distillate productivity -- Energy storage materials -- PCMs; Materials science -- Congresses -- Periodicals; 620.1
• DOI: 10.1016/j.matpr.2020.11.796
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2214-7853

Abstract

Abstract: Drinkable water is everything for human beings. The roots of existence and its survival rely on water. Human beings reach for fresh water is only 0.5 to 1%. For enhancing human reach towards fresh water solar desalination is a solution that does not require costly equipment, fuel, and skilled labor. As in India, all these factors are essentially related to the use of any technology. Solar still uses solar energy for distillation to produce drinkable water. Solar energy is available almost throughout the year and free of cost which will influence everyone to use it. Because of its low recognition and low productivity, it did not produce commercially. The factors that solar still productivity depends on unregulated metrological factors such as water temperature (inlet), solar intensity, ambient temperature, wind velocity, etc. For productivity enhancement, depth of basin water in solar still plays important role. The review work focus on the effects of different water depths (1–15 cm) on the distillate productivity for various designs. This will help researchers to select optimized water depth for experimentation with various solar still designs.