Comprehensive Review on Solar Stills—Latest Developments and Overview

Obai Younis, Ahmed Kadhim Hussein, Mohammed El Hadi Attia, Hakim S. Sultan Aljibori, Lioua Kolsi, Hussein Togun, Bagh Ali, Aissa Abderrahmane, Khanyaluck Subkrajang () and Anuwat Jirawattanapanit
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Obai Younis: Mechanical Engineering Department, College of Engineering in Wadi Addwasir, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Wadi Addwasir 11991, Saudi Arabia
Ahmed Kadhim Hussein: Mechanical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, University of Babylon, Hilla 00964, Iraq
Mohammed El Hadi Attia: Physics Department, Faculty of Exact Sciences, University of El Oued, El Oued 3900, Algeria
Hakim S. Sultan Aljibori: College of Engineering, University of Warith Al-Anbiyaa, Karbala 56001, Iraq
Lioua Kolsi: Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Ha’il, Ha’il City 81451, Saudi Arabia
Hussein Togun: College of Engineering, University of Warith Al-Anbiyaa, Karbala 56001, Iraq
Bagh Ali: Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Superior University, Lahore 54000, Pakistan
Aissa Abderrahmane: LPQ3M, Université Mustapha Stambouli de Mascara, Mascara 29000, Algeria
Khanyaluck Subkrajang: Faculty of Science and Technology, Rajamangala University of Technology Suvarnabhumi, Nonthaburi 11000, Thailand
Anuwat Jirawattanapanit: Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Phuket Rajabhat University (PKRU), Phuket 83000, Thailand

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 16, 1-59

Abstract: This up-to-date and comprehensive literature study provides a rich overview of recent developments in several solar still types. This review examines a large number of theoretical, experimental, and computational studies connected to the single-slope, double-slope, solar still with a condenser, hybrid, and other limited types of solar stills. To make the work more relevant to readers, the authors provide a panoramic view of solar still varieties as well as a complete overview of the most recently published review papers in the solar stills field. The most important conclusions drawn from prior research are carefully discussed and outlined in a useful table to give interested researchers a good road map of many various sorts of solar stills and encourage them to pursue new research avenues in this field. The foremost key results of the evaluated work are presented in a table for readers’ convenience. The results indicated that the absorption in the basin was improved by adding charcoal, matt, sponge, jute and cotton clothes, dye, wick, porous or energy-storing material, black rubber, and floating absorber sheet. Moreover, the productivity of solar stills was significantly improved by using the inclined external flat-plate reflector, combined stills, condenser, sun tracking system, reflectors, greenhouse, hot water tank, solar collector, heat exchanger, and solar pond. Further, heat loss was minimized by re-utilizing the latent heat of condensation, cover cooling, and increasing the insulation thickness.

Keywords: solar still; water distillation; literature review; renewable energies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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