Desalination by a "compact SMADES" autonomous solarpowered membrane distillation unit

Desalination

Volumn 217, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 29-37

  Banat, Fawzi ^a   Jwaied, Nesreen ^a   Rommel, Matthias ^b   Koschikowski, Joachim ^b   Wieghaus, Marcel ^b  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Economy ratio; Membrane distillation; Solar collectors; Solar desalination

Indexed keywords

DISTILLATION; POTABLE WATER; SOLAR COLLECTORS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION;

DISTILLATE CONDUCTIVITY; HEAT RECOVERY FUNCTION; SOLAR THERMAL COLLECTOR;

DESALINATION;

DESALINATION; DISTILLATION; POTABLE WATER; SOLAR COLLECTORS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION;

DESALINATION; DISTILLATION; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; MEMBRANE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SOLAR POWER; WATER SUPPLY;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRBID [JORDAN]; JORDAN; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 35649015305     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2006.11.028     Document Type: Article

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