A technical review on the extraction of water from atmospheric air in arid zones

JP Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 213-228

  Hamed, Ahmed M ^a   Kabeel, A E ^b   Zeidan, El Shafei B ^a   Aly, Ayman A ^a  

^a TAIF UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Tanta University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Absorption; Air; Dew collection; Extraction; Liquid desiccant; Regeneration; Solar energy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951707963     PISSN: 09735763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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