Applied Chemical Engineering

Various active methods to augment the yield of solar still: A mini review

Choon Kit Chan

Faculty of Engineering and Quantity Surveying, INTI International University, Putra Nilai, Negeri Sembilan, 71800, Malaysia

Rajashree Bhokare

Department of Electrical Engineering, Dr. D. Y. Patil Institute of Technology, Pimpri, Pune, Maharashtra, 411018, India

Vinod Chandrakant Todkari

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vidya Pratishthans Kamalnayan Bajaj Institute of Engineering and Technology, Baramati VPKBIET Baramati, India.

Atulkumar Sanadi

Assistant professor Department of Mechanical Engineering, Annasaheb Dange College of engineering and technology, ashta, 416301 Sangli Maharashtra, India

Shyamsing Thakur

Department of Mechanical Engineering, D. Y. Patil College of Engineering, Akurdi, Pune, India.

Ghanshyam G Tejani

Department of Research Analytics, Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Chennai 600 077, Tamil Nadu, India

Feroz Shaik

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, 31952, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Sujeet Kumar

Division of research and development, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, 146001, India; Centre for Promotion of Research, Graphic Era (Deemed to be University), Uttarakhand, Dehradun, 248199, India

Roshan Singh

Centre of Research Impact and Outcome, Chitkara University, Rajpura , Punjab, 140417, India ; Centre for Research and Development, Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh,174103, India.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59429/ace.v8i4.5556

Keywords: Solar still (SS); Evacuated tubes (ET); Flat plate collector (FPC); Parabolic trough (PT), Energy efficiency

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Abstract

Solar still (SS) is a cheap and easy method for producing pure water from saline or brackish water. Therefore, the SS is not a popular residential water supply. The present review shows various active methods for SS coupled with a flat plate collector (FPC), evacuated tubes (ET), and parabolic trough (PT) to augment the yield. It also shows that a table of various researchers works to enhance the yield owing to the hot water supply to the basin. Active methods using SS are effective in improving yield. Finally, future work on different active methods should be conducted for further research on SS.

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