TY - JOUR
TI - Performance study of solar stills with various absorbing materials and a sensible heat storage medium
AU - Perumal Prakash
AU - Vellaipandian Velmurugan
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2016
VL - 20
IS - 14
SP - 947
EP - 953
PT - Article
AB - In this paper, the productivity of the solar stills is enhanced by placing  different wick materials on the inner walls of the basin. The experiments are  conducted with three different wick materials, namely cotton cloth, jute  cloth, and sponges. The wick materials are painted with black to increase the  absorptivity. The productivity of the still with cotton cloth, jute cloth,  and sponges are 38.56%, 31.37%, and 24.50%, respectively, more than the  conventional still. The stills are also tested with wicks and pebbles and  compared with the conventional still. The productivity of the still with  cotton cloth with pebbles, jute cloth with pebbles and sponge with pebbles  are 55.66%, 43.68%, and 33.33%, respectively, more than the conventional  still.