• Prakash H. Vekariya
• Nisarg Merchant
• Dhananjay Nayak
• Bhaumik J. Sheth

There is always a paucity of clean and pure drinking water in many developing countries. Water from different sources is often unsafe for drinking purpose (i.e. contains dissolved salts) and contains harmful bacteria and therefore, cannot be used for drinking purpose. There are many water frontier areas where seawater is in surplus quantity but drinkable water is not available in sufficient quantity. Major parts in India, particularly, village areas, coastal areas and many municipalities too, have a serious drinking water problem. Sufficient drinking water, at granted purity level, is inaccessible. Therefore, it is dire need of the society to manufacture certain purification systems which run on renewable energy. The project makes use of the latent heat of fusion of the PCM that is placed in the basin to continue desalination even after sunset. The PCM used was stearic acid having a melting point of 54 °C. The cooling effect is also explored for their effect on the single slope solar still productivity.

Desalination, Solar stills, Solar energy storage, Phase change materials.

"Performance Enhancement of Solar Still Using Phase Change Material", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.402-405, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904O64.pdf

"Performance Enhancement of Solar Still Using Phase Change Material", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp402-405, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904O64.pdf