Tilted wick solar still with flat plate bottom reflector

Desalination

Volumn 273, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 405-413

  Tanaka, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KURUME NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bottom reflector; Mirror; Solar desalination; Solar distillation; Solar still; Tilted wick

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM REFLECTOR; SOLAR DESALINATION; SOLAR DISTILLATION; SOLAR STILLS; TILTED-WICK;

DESALINATION; DISTILLATION; DISTILLATION EQUIPMENT; MASS TRANSFER; MIRRORS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SOLAR HEATING; SUN; WATER FILTRATION;

REFLECTION;

DESALINATION; DISTILLATION; GEOMETRY; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 79953735239     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2011.01.073     Document Type: Article

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