THE "EVAPORATIVE CAPACITY" AS A PERFORMANCE INDEX FOR A SOLAR-DRIER AIR-HEATER

Solar Energy

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 387-391

  Jannot, Yves ^a   Coulibaly, Yézouma ^b  

^a Ecole National Superieure Polytechnique Cameroon   (Cameroon)

^b EIER   (Burkina Faso)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; SOLAR COLLECTORS; SOLAR HEATING; TEMPERATURE;

EVAPORATIVE CAPACITY; SOLAR DRIER AIR HEATER;

SOLAR DRYERS;

EVAPORATION; HEATER; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SOLAR POWER;

EID: 0032457795     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0038-092X(98)00097-8     Document Type: Article

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