Comparison of indoor and outdoor experiments on a newly designed air solar plate collector used with the operating conditions of a solar desalination process

Desalination

Volumn 168, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 81-88

  Amara, Mahmoud Ben ^a   Houcine, Imed ^a   Guizani, Amenallah ^a   Mâalej, Mohammed ^a  

^a Institut National de Recherche Scientifique et Technique Tunis   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Recoverable energy; Solar air collector; Solar desalination

Indexed keywords

DESALINATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; IRRADIATION; PRODUCT DESIGN; SOLAR ENERGY;

AIRFLOW RATE; SOLAR DESALINATION PROCESSES; WIND VELOCITY;

SOLAR COLLECTORS;

SOLAR POWER;

EID: 7544237956     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2004.06.171     Document Type: Article

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