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Research Progress on Passive Solar Still: a Review


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15866/ireme.v15i5.20834

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Drinkable water and shortages of reliable energy are two major challenges in the world currently. Water is the essential need for food of all the living substances. Human beings are considered the most developed living substances. They require fresh and clean water for their food at less utilization of traditional energy sources or by utilization of renewable vitality. In this point of view, numerous non-renewable and renewable methods have been created for the distillation of briny or saline water. Among many water distillation strategies, solar still is the most alluring and eco-friendly method to cater to the requirement for new drinkable water in far-off ranges at a rational cost. Any sum of exertion to progress the surrender from sun-powered stills by considering various plan parameters is worth talking about. In this work, an intensive review has been achieved in order to cover this field of study. This work has two sections. The first one aims to cover the experimental works that have been conducted over the last 30 years. On the other hand, the second part covers the numerical investigation that has been carried out. Within the final three decades, many design parameters have been explored to progress the efficiency of freshwater. Various designs and plan parameters, which are presented in this detailed survey, have been utilized by researchers in order to enhance the efficiency of a passive solar still. Solar stills are commonly analyzed and are simulated using the software. This is essential in optimizing the performance-affecting parameters before constructing the physical model. It is a cost and time-effective technique compared to ordinary experimental investigations. This paper provides an overview of a variety of software used in the design and the examination of different solar stills. This could provide an outstanding guide, for researchers and design engineers, in order to select the most appropriate software for a particular design requirement. It also provides a general idea about the feasibility and the benefits of using specific software over the others and helps the researchers to choose the possible software-oriented research. In this study, ANSYS, FLUENT, and MATLAB have been considered as solar still modeling and developing software.
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Solar Still; Desalination; Passive Still; Renewable Energy and Distillate Yield; Modeling and Developed Software

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