Effect of Design Parameters on Fresh Water Produced from Triangular Basin and Conventional Basin Solar Still

Table 3

Comparison of present testing with previously published work.

S. No	Author name	Experimentation	Yield	Location
1	Kumar et al. [19, 20]	PSS integrated with an inclined solar still	7.52 kg/m^2	Chennai, India
2	Kabeel et al. [21]	Triangular PSS coated with TiO2 nanoparticle	6.6 kg/m^2	Chennai, India
3	Ahsan et al. [24]	Experimentation on TSS by varying water depth	1.6 kg/m^2	Japan
4	Taamneh and Taamneh [26]	The PSS with fan	3 L	Jordan
5	Kabeel et al. [27]	Modified PSS basin with V-corrugated absorber surface and PCM	6.6 kg/m^2	Tanta, Egypt
6	Abdelal and Taamneh [28]	Novel composite absorber plate integrated PSS	3.3 kg/m^2	Jordan
7	Kabeel et al. [47]	Tubular solar still using NPCM	5.62 kg/m^2	Chennai, India
8	Kabeel [29]	Concave wick	4.1 L/m^2	Tanta, Egypt
9	Dhiman [30]	Spherical solar still	2.75 kg/m^2	India
10	Ismail [48]	Hemispherical solar still transportable type	5.7 L/m^2	Saudi Arabia
11	Arunkumar et al. [49]	Hemispherical solar still	4200 mL/m^2	Coimbatore, India
12	Minasian and Al-Karaghouli [33]	Floating vertical solar still	5000 mL/m^2	Baghdad
13	Boukar and Harmim [31]	Vertical solar still	2.3 kg/m^2	Adrar
14	Tanaka [32]	Multi effect vertical diffusion solar still	13.3 kg/m^2	Fukuoka, Japan
16	Boukar and Harmim [35]	One sided vertical solar still	1.2 kg/m^2	Adrar, Algeria
17	El-Sebaii [36]	Vertical solar still	4.2 kg/m^2	Tanta, Egypt
18	Abdul-Wahab and Al-Hatmi [37]	Inverted absorber solar still with refrigeration cycle	10.08 kg/day	Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
19	Abdul-Wahab and Al-Hatmi [38]	Inverted absorber solar still with refrigeration cycle	10.08 kg/day	Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
20	Present study	TBSS	3.2 kg/m^2	Chennai, India