Table 6.

Comparison of the ISSB performance with various design types of solar stills.

Type of solar still	Nature of study	Authors	Site location	Accumulated yield of fresh water kg/m2 day
Single basin type with fin	Experimental	Velmurgan et al. [16]	India	2.81
Augmented with pin-finned wick evaporation surface	Experimental (without wick)	Alaian et al. [58]		2.65
Single basin with flow of water from an air cooler on the cover	Experimental	Somwanshi and Tiwari [59]	India	2.17
Fin type solar still	Experimental	Velmurugan et al. [60]	India	2.77
Concentric tubular solar still water cooling	Experimental	Arunkumar et al. [61]	India	2.50
Triangular prism and pyramidal shaped portable solar stills	Experimental	Wassouf et al. [62]		1.80
Double and single basin double slope	Experimental (Single basin)	Rajaseenivasan and Murugavel [55]	India	2.56
Inclined solar still (ISS) with black fleece	Experimental	Aybar et al. [20]	Cyprus	2.99
Partial ISS with black cloth wick	Experimental	Emrah Deniz [57]	Turkey	2.79
Improved ISS	Experimental	Murugesan et al. [43]	India	2.793
ISS with baffle plates	Theoretical	Ravishankar Sathyamurthy et al. [40]	India	3.50 (mass flow rate of 0.0833 kg/min)
ISS with baffle plates	Theoretical	Murugesan et al. [39]	India	2.59 (mass flow rate of 0.001388 kg/s)
Inclined solar still with baffle arrangements	Experimental	Present study	India	2.908