• Energy Research

Abstract Drinking water is a necessity not only for humanity but also for the all living organisms available in the earth today. But the availability of the potable water is not in abundant amount; hence clean water is scarce in the world today. Solar desalination system is used to turn the saline water into the freshwater by use of sunrays. Solar still is a device which can be employed for desalination. As the daily productivity of solar distiller is low so, multiple techniques have been used by various researchers to improve its productivity. But work done on the fins to enhance the distillate output is not much. Fin is a low-cost heat transfer enhancement which is used by many researchers in the solar thermal applications. Present review paper shows the use of fins in solar still and how it can be used to enhance the distillate output of solar still. At last, a table is also presented to show the use of fins to increase the distillate output alone and with the use of certain materials.

The present research paper shows the use of a flash evaporator coupled with the solar desalination system to improve the distillate output. Here solar desalination system consists of a solar water ...

World is growing very fast as the population and technological development increased every day. Shortage of water becomes a significant obstacle in the development process of many parts of the worl...

Solar still is one of the most promising technology to convert available brackish or saline water into drinkable water. It is not widely used due to the lower distillate output from it. Passive and active are the two main types of solar still. Distillate output of a passive solar still is lower compared with that of an active solar still. Hence, for increment in distillate output from the solar still, active solar still is the only viable option. The present review shows the various techniques available in an active solar still for increment in distillate output.