Solar desalination unit with falling film

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 3, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 58-63

  Abu Arabi, Mousa ^a   Mousa, Hasan ^a   Abdelrahman, Rania ^a  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Desalination; Falling film; Inclined plate; Solar collector; Water

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954236738     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5004/dwt.2009.312     Document Type: Article

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