Performance enhancement of a solar still using thermal energy storage and innovative designs: recent progress, challenges, and future directions
Solar distillation is an environmentally friendly method of producing freshwater, yet its use at large is constrained by low productivity (usually 3 L m−2 day−1) and reliance on the daytime solar radiation. Thermal energy storage (TES) materials, especially phase change materials (PCMs) and nanoparticle-enhanced PCMs (...