Utilization of thermoelectric cooling in a portable active solar still — An experimental study on winter days

An experimental investigation on a solar still with an integrated flat plate collector

“…Here the average year around productivity of the solar still is taken about 60% of its daily original productivity, due to the year around variation in climatic condition. The solving methodology and other parameters used for the economic analysis are provided in Appendix A [31,32]. Table 3 shows the economic analysis of conventional and FPCB stills with different modifications in the basin.…”

Experimental and analytical study on productivity augmentation of a novel solar humidification–dehumidification (HDH) system

“…(3) is determined using the properties of humid air as a function of operating temperature (T i ) [43]. The evaporative heat flux (q ev ) in Eq.…”

“…The values of the accuracy and range shown in Table 1 were obtained from the instrument specification. Since all the measurands are supposed to be uniformly distributed, the standard uncertainty was determined only for Type B and not for Type A using the following equation [43,44]:…”

Single Basin Solar Still with Varying Depth of Water: Optimization by Computational Method

“…There are a few strategies utilized to enhance the efficiency of the still such as latent heat storage with phase change [4][5][6][7] for improving distilled water generation, sensible warmth storing materials like rock wicks, solid funnels, stones, charcoal and steel scraps [8][9][10][11]. Coupling the thermo-electric [12] and reflectors [13,14] tools enhances the proficiency of production of water. Panchal et al [15] studied that distilled water output of passive solar still fitted with aluminum plate in water basin was maximum as compared to solar still having galvanized iron plate as well as conventional solar still.…”