Design, development and testing of multieffect distiller/evaporator using scheffler solar concentrators

Journal of Engineering Science and Technology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 315-321

  Chandak, Ajay ^a   Somani, Sunil K ^b   Dubey, Deepak ^a  

^a SSVPS BSD College of Engineering   (India)

^b Medicaps Institute of Technology and Management   (India)

Author keywords

MED; Scheffler concentrator; Solar Multistage distillation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450190955     PISSN: 18234690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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