A review on solar stills for brine desalination

Applied Energy

Volumn 103, Issue , 2013, Pages 642-652

  Xiao, Gang ^a   Wang, Xihui ^a   Ni, Mingjiang ^a   Wang, Fei ^a   Zhu, Weijun ^a   Luo, Zhongyang ^a   Cen, Kefa ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Desalination; Productivity; Solar still; Thermal efficiency

Indexed keywords

DESALINATION; DESIGN; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; PRODUCTIVITY; SOLAR HEATING; WATER FILTRATION;

CLIMATE CONDITION; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER; SOLAR STILLS; STRUCTURE MODIFICATION; THERMAL EFFICIENCY;

DISTILLATION;

BRINE; DESALINATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GUIDELINE; HEAT TRANSFER; LITERATURE REVIEW; MASS TRANSFER; PRODUCTIVITY; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SOLAR POWER; THERMAL POWER;

EID: 84871722270     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2012.10.029     Document Type: Review

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