DESIGN OF SOLAR STILL INTEGRATED WITH CONDENSER FOR BETTER OUTPUT

Abstract

water is the basic necessity for human along with food and air. There is a little pure water left on earth and nearly all of this polluted by both pollutants and toxic chemicals. For this reason, purification of water before consumption is extremely important. Solar desalination is one of the cheapest methods for distilled water production. Single basin solar still is a popular solar device used for converting available brackish water into portable water. Because of its lower productivity, it is not popularly used. The basin still is developed by adding the condensing unit. In this study was conducted by testing the solar still by using the condensing unit with a single glass cover. It has been observed that condensing unit attachment gives the higher productivity and efficiency as compared to the single basin solar still without condensing unit.