www.ijraset.com Volume 4 Issue XI, November 2016 IC Value: 13.98 ISSN: 2321-9653 International Journal for Research in Applied Science & Engineering Technology (IJRASET) ©IJRASET: All Rights are Reserved 184 Recent Trends in Solar Distillation Raveena J. Ramteke 1 , Aishwarya R. Dhurwey 2 , Harshit B. Borkar 3 , Adarsh J. Rai 4 , Ankit Malviya 5 , Ajay A. Mate 6 , Mohammad Aftab sheikh 7 , Vikrant. P. Katekar 8 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 Department of Mechanical Engineering S. B. Jain Institute of Technology, Management and Research, Nagpur, 441501, Maharashtra, India Abstract-Water is the main source for sustaining the man on earth. Groundwater and reservoirs are the largest available sources of freshwater to fullfill needs of mankind. However, these sources do not always proved to be useful due to the excessive salinity in the water. Solar still is one of the process by which we can purify the water with the help of solar radiations. This device can be fabricated easily with lower cost. This paper takes review of latest development in solar distillation system. KEYWORDS-Solar radiations, Solar still, Salinity, Phase changing material (PCM) I. INTRODUCTION A Solar Still is a device that produces clean, drinkable water from dirty water using the energy from the sun as shown in fig.1.This inexpensive device can easily be built using local materials. Presently, basin type solar still is the only device that is being used for water distillation applications. Solar distillation is very old technology. It is simple treatment for water purification. The basic principles of solar distillation areyet effective, the heat of the sun evaporates the water and the vapour condenses on inner surface of the cover. The condensate runs into trough from which it can be collected in storage containers.The solar still is Non-conventional, cheap, simple, easy to construct and is of low thermal capacity. The two main categories of basin stills are single and double sloped. The double sloped basin still has two sloped pieces of glass rather than one. The main parts of still arebasin, frame, glass cover and support structure. Solar distillation has advantage of cost saving over other types of distillation such as reverse osmosis. Fig.1 Solar still II. LITERATURE REVIEW A. Chendake A.D., Pawar R.S., Thorat P.V. and Pol A.D. Chendake A.D., PawarR.S., Thorat P.V. and Pol A.D. told about the basics of design and development of the double slope solar still as shown in fig.2. The design of the components of stillare cover plate,insolation,basin,collector plate.Thermocol material was used for insulation between basin and plywood to reduce heat loss due to conduction. They also did chemical analysis and economic evaluation of solar still which were used for the study of pH, TDS.