TY - JOUR AU - Hardik N kunvarani , AU - Hitesh N Panchal , AU - Vishal N Thakkar, PY - 2014/03/25 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Investigation and performance analysis of solar still with different absorber plates JF - International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD) JA - IJAERD VL - 1 IS - 3 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://ijaerd.com/index.php/IJAERD/article/view/5388 SP - 243-252 AB - <p>Among the active and passive solar still, when portable water requirement if less than 5 litters then<br>passive solar still is used otherwise active solar still is used. Only the price of active solar still is more compared<br>with passive solar still. Hence, it is a prime requisite of every researcher is to increase distillate output in passive<br>solar still. Research states that, when distance between water and ice cover reduces, automatically distillate output<br>and efficiency is increased due to decrease of losses. Hence, if a plate is set beneath the water level, at that time<br>distance between the absorber plate and glass cover decrease and speed of travelling of vapor also decrease along<br>with the saturation pressure of water increase. Here, chequered plates are going to employ, which increased<br>convective and evaporative heat transfer coefficient by a diamond shape pattern on its surface.</p> ER -