Vol. 5 (03) pp. 1208-1216 DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/3625

TO ENHANCE THE PERFORMANCE OF SOLAR STILL WITH REFLECTORS

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Abstract

The solar still is an errorless well spring of freshwater for farming and drinking in far away, widely different areas or islands. There are great numbers of sort of solar stills the least difficult and most put examples on view of is the basin solar still. Observations put examples on view of that the common still has limited amount produced. Researches have taken determinations to make different designs of solar stills to get well the amount produced and got knowledge by reasoning that solar stills incorporated with reflectors are the most efficient and effective Designs The reflectors, either outside or inside, are a good and cheap modification to increase the solar irradiation given direction to the basin liner or the water along with the distillate efficiency of the still. In this paper, a wide measures taking for different solar stills with reflectors has been showed.

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How to Cite This Article

Mohd Zaheen Khan and I. Nawaz. (2017); TO ENHANCE THE PERFORMANCE OF SOLAR STILL WITH REFLECTORS, Int. J. of Adv. Res., 5 (03), 1208-1216, ISSN 2320-5407. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/3625

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MOHD ZAHEEN KHAN, I.NAWAZ
JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA
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