Effect of water and air flow on concentric tubular solar water desalting system

Applied Energy

Volumn 103, Issue , 2013, Pages 109-115

  Arunkumar, T ^a   Jayaprakash, R ^a   Ahsan, Amimul ^b,c   Denkenberger, D ^d   Okundamiya, M S ^e  

^a SRI RAMAKRISHNA MISSION VIDYALAYA COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c Denkenberger Inventing and Consulting ^*

^d Denkenberger Inventing and Consulting   (United States)

^e AMBROSE ALLI UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Distillate output; Fresh water; Tubular solar still

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; DISTILLATION; SOLAR HEATING; TEMPERATURE; WATER; WATER FILTRATION;

AIR FLOW; AIR TEMPERATURE; COOLING AIR FLOW; COOLING FLOWS; COOLING WATER FLOW; DISTILLATE OUTPUT; DISTILLED WATER; DIURNAL VARIATION; EFFECT OF WATER; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FLOWING WATERS; FRESH WATER; FRESH WATER PRODUCTION; INNOVATIVE DESIGN; SOLAR STILLS; WATER DESALINATION; WATER PRODUCTION RATE; WATER TEMPERATURES;

DESALINATION;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIRFLOW; COOLING; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DESALINATION; DISTILLATION; WATER FLOW; WATER TEMPERATURE;

COIMBATORE; INDIA; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 84871717992     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2012.09.014     Document Type: Article

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