<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . . "Assessing the performance, sustainability, and economic viability of a photovoltaic-based solar desalination system for water scarce regions"^^ . "Solar desalination is gaining increasing attention as a sustainable solution to address water scarcity in many regions. This study presents a comprehensive analysis of various aspects of solar desalination systems, including distillate quality, cost estimation, efficiency, and performance comparison. The research involved developing a photovoltaic-based solar desalination system and investigating its distillate quantity and quality, demonstrating its improvement over the conventional system (solar still which comprises a basin and a glass cover) and similar research. A pretreatment system was incorporated to produce a cleaner distillate over conventional solar stills. The results showed an improvement in distillate quantity from 4.7 L/m2 day to 19.7 L/m2 day, for the conventional and modified systems respectively. The pretreatment system enhances the distillate quality with a range of 10�55 in certain parameters. Cost estimation analysis revealed the distillate cost for the traditional and improved systems are 0.041 and 0.091 /L respectively. A comparison with other studies highlighted the remarkable efficiency of the present study with an average improvement of 30. It is recommended that future research should be focused on integrating pre-treatment systems, optimizing distillate cost, improving the performance of the conventional system, exploring efficiency enhancements, conducting comparative studies, performing techno-economic analysis, and scaling up. In conclusion, this work contributes to the understanding of desalination systems that use solar energy, their performance, and cost-effectiveness. © 2023 Elsevier Ltd"^^ . "2023" . . "421" . . "Journal of Cleaner Production"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "S.J."^^ . "Mohammad"^^ . "S.J. Mohammad"^^ . . "A.S."^^ . "Isah"^^ . "A.S. Isah"^^ . . "B.S."^^ . "Mahinder Singh"^^ . "B.S. Mahinder Singh"^^ . . "H.B."^^ . "Takaijudin"^^ . "H.B. Takaijudin"^^ . . "T."^^ . "Oladoyin abimbola"^^ . "T. Oladoyin abimbola"^^ . . "U.A."^^ . "Abubakar"^^ . "U.A. Abubakar"^^ . . . . . "HTML Summary of #18172 \n\nAssessing the performance, sustainability, and economic viability of a photovoltaic-based solar desalination system for water scarce regions\n\n" . "text/html" . .