ACADEMICIA: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal
  • Year: 2021
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue: 12

Examining the efficiency of different kinds of solar stills

1Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Teerthanker Mahaveer University, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, Email id: ravi.engineering@tmu.ac.in

Online Published on 14 February, 2022.

Abstract

In the area of desalination, solar is still the best technique. The solar still is a device that uses energy that is freely and abundantly accessible on our planet to turn wastewater into fresh distillate water. Fresh water is required and demanded by people all around the globe. Solar stills are used to address this issue by increasing the production of drinking water. Solar stills may be constructed even by untrained workers, using easily accessible local materials and no complicated design. The purpose of this essay is to compare the different variables that affect the solar still's output. This in-depth analysis will also shed light on the need for further study and suggestions in the field of desalination. Aristotle proposed a technique for evaporating polluted water and then condensing it for drinkable use as early as the fourth century. The first recorded work on solar distillation, however, was done by Arab alchemists in the fifteenth century.

Keywords

Basin, Desalination, Fin, Reservoir, Solar, Vapor