• Jafar Ali. T. N.
• Ayaz Ahmed
• Sheik Mohamed

The only nearly inexhaustible sources of water are the oceans, which is of high salinity. However, the separation of salts from seawater requires large amounts of energy which, when produced from fossil fuels, can cause harm to the environment. Therefore, there is a need to employ environmentally friendly energy sources in order to desalinate seawater. In this project we designed a solar still (single basin double slope), which can be used for water desalination (removing salt content from water using solar energy). Probably, they are considered the best solution for water production in remote, arid to semi-arid, small communities, where fresh water is unavailable. However, the amount of distilled water produced per unit area is somewhat low in designed solar still which makes the solar still unacceptable in some instances. The purpose of this project is to study the effect of using phase change materials in a solar still, and thus enhance the productivity of water. In present work phase change material paraffin wax is used to store the solar thermal energy in the form of latent heat, which can offer high storage capacity per unit volume and per unit mass and we can get heat in the night time for desalination.

Solar Basin, Radiation, Thermocouple, Phase change material, Paraffin wax.

"Experimental study on Solar Water Desalination using Phase Change Material", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.984-989, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904U26.pdf

"Experimental study on Solar Water Desalination 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. pp984-989, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904U26.pdf