A mini review of techniques used to improve the tubular solar still performance for solar water desalination

Swellam W. Sharshir; Youssef M. Ellakany; Almoataz M. Algazzar; Ammar H. Elsheikh; M. R. Elkadeem; Elbager M.A. Edreis; Abdelrahman S. Waly; Ravishankar Sathyamurthy; Hitesh Panchal; Mahmoud S. Elashry

doi:10.1016/j.psep.2019.02.020

A mini review of techniques used to improve the tubular solar still performance for solar water desalination

Swellam W. Sharshir^*
, Youssef M. Ellakany
, Almoataz M. Algazzar
, Ammar H. Elsheikh
, M. R. Elkadeem
, Elbager M.A. Edreis
, Abdelrahman S. Waly
, Ravishankar Sathyamurthy
, Hitesh Panchal
, Mahmoud S. Elashry

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Today, clean water availability is quite hard especially for people living in remote areas and coastal ones. Even for those who find underground water, they need to treat it before using. Solar still is a very useful method to be used in desalination and purifying water as it uses solar energy which is available around the globe with no cost and is eco-friendly. Many types of solar stills are invented to increase its daily productivity (stepped solar stills, inclined solar stills, pyramid solar still, wick, etc.). In this regard, this paper represents a mini-review of a new type of solar still named tubular solar still (TSS), its working method, thermal analysis, performance and method of enhancement. The remarkable improvement is attributed to the use of nanotechnology (ZnO nano-rod shape) by which the productivity and efficiency are increased by 30% and 38% respectively. Moreover, some futuristic developments on TSS are included in this review.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	204-212
Number of pages	9
Journal	Process Safety and Environmental Protection
Volume	124
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psep.2019.02.020
State	Published - Apr 2019
Externally published	Yes

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This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation
SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Keywords

Nanotechnology
Productivity
Review
Solar desalination
Tubular solar still

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Environmental Engineering
Environmental Chemistry
General Chemical Engineering
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

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Sharshir, S. W., Ellakany, Y. M., Algazzar, A. M., Elsheikh, A. H., Elkadeem, M. R., Edreis, E. M. A., Waly, A. S., Sathyamurthy, R., Panchal, H., & Elashry, M. S. (2019). A mini review of techniques used to improve the tubular solar still performance for solar water desalination. Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 124, 204-212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psep.2019.02.020

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