Sun tracking system for productivity enhancement of solar still

Desalination

Volumn 220, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 669-676

  Abdallah, S ^a   Badran, O O ^b  

^a APPLIED SCIENCE PRIVATE UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^b AL BALQA APPLIED UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Desalination; Distillation; Solar energy; Solar still; Sun tracker

Indexed keywords

DESALINATION; DISTILLATION; PRODUCTIVITY; TRACKING (POSITION);

SOLAR STILL; SUN TRACKING SYSTEM;

SOLAR EQUIPMENT;

DESALINATION; DISTILLATION; PRODUCTIVITY; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; TRACKING (POSITION);

DESALINATION; DISTILLATION; EXPERIMENTAL APPARATUS; PRODUCTIVITY; SOLAR POWER; TRACKING;

EID: 38349033411     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2007.02.047     Document Type: Article

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