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ArticleEnvironmental science and pollution research international2022

An experimental study on eco-friendly and cost-effective natural materials for productivity enhancement of single slope solar still.

Sendhil Kumar Natarajan, Subbarama Kousik Suraparaju, Rajvikram Madurai Elavarasan, Rishi Pugazhendhi, Eklas Hossain

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Article in Environmental science and pollution research international, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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  2. Historic review and recent progress in internal design modification in solar stills.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2022
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  3. Review on performance assessment of solar stills using computational fluid dynamics (CFD).Environmental science and pollution research international · 2022
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  4. Performance assessment of conventional solar desalination system in Northern part of Gujarat.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2022
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Sendhil Kumar NatarajanSolar Energy Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Puducherry, Union Territory of Puducherry, Karaikal, 609609, India. drsendhil1980iitmuk@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3257-4570
Subbarama Kousik SuraparajuSolar Energy Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Puducherry, Union Territory of Puducherry, Karaikal, 609609, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4193-7380
Rajvikram Madurai ElavarasanClean and Resilient Energy Systems (CARES) Laboratory, Texas A&M University, Galveston, TX, 77553, USA. rajvikram787@gmail.com.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1639-2953
Rishi PugazhendhiDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Chennai, 602117, India.
Eklas HossainDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Renewable Energy, Oregon Institute of Technology, Klamath Falls, OR, 97601, USA.

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Abstract

The proposed research study aims to improve the productivity of solar still (SS) by using low-cost and eco-friendly materials. The aforementioned objective was achieved by enhancing the evaporation rate of seawater in the absorber basin and the condensation rate over the glass cover of the solar still. In this study, the low-cost and eco-friendly materials used for enhancing the evaporation rate in the solar still were molasses powder (MP), sawdust (SD) and rice husk (RH). In addition to these materials, bamboo straw (BS), banana leaf stem (BL) and rice straw (RS) were used as absorbing materials over the glass cover for enhancing the condensation rate. The experiments were carried out under similar meteorological conditions, and the results of the modified solar still were compared with the conventional solar still (CSS). The productivities of CSS, SSMP, SSRH, SSSD, SSBS, SSBL and SSRS were about 2250 mL/m

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