Experimental investigation of a multi-effect active solar still: The effect of the number of stages

Effects of amount and mode of input energy on the performance of a multi-stage solar still: An experimental study

“…Conventional single stage solar stills [15][16][17] utilize the system's energy input only once. However, multi-stage systems [18][19][20][21][22] are specifically designed to use the heat of condensation of the vapor again, so that this energy can be used for evaporation a couple of times.…”

Year-round outdoor experiments on a multi-stage active solar still with different numbers of solar collectors

“…2. As illustrated in this figure, the basin chamber was made of four separated stages which are located on the top of each other, based on the results in [10]. The stages were made of aluminum and the effective evaporation surface was 0.47 m 2 .…”

“…Various types of solar stills including single basin passive [3][4][5], single basin active [2,[6][7][8], multi-basin passive [9], multi-basin active [10], tubular [11] and inverted absorber [12] were constructed and studied to date. Moreover, valuable reviews on solar stills can be found in the literature [13][14][15].…”

Low-Cost Multi-Effect Solar Still: Alternative Appropriate Technology for Personal Desalination

“…Therefore, substantial improvement of productivity should be made on solar still for more practical applications. Multi-effect solar still (MES) was developed to overcome this low productivity problem, by recycling wasted latent heat repeatedly [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27]. As shown in Figure 1, in MES, multiple layers of evaporating wicks and condensing surface are stacked together [14].…”