Performance Analysis of Solar Still Having ...

Solar distillation is one of the important methods of getting clean water from brackish and sea water using the free energy supply from the sun. Here, experiment is made with three identical solar stills. First two solar stills consist of plates like Aluminum and Galvanized Iron. The third solar still is taken as conventional solar still. Performance of solar stills having aluminum plate and Galvanized iron plate is tested and compared with conventional solar still under the same climate conditions of Gujarat. It is found from the experiment that solar still having Aluminum plate increases distillate output of 45 % and Galvanized iron sheet increases upto 15 % compared with conventional solar still.