Performance analysis of a low-temperature waste heat-driven adsorption desalination prototype

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 65, Issue , 2013, Pages 662-669

  Thu, Kyaw ^a   Yanagi, Hideharu ^b   Saha, Bidyut Baran ^c   Ng, Kim Choon ^b  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Desalination; Heat recovery; Waste heat utilization

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION DESALINATION; HEAT SOURCE TEMPERATURES; INTERNAL HEAT RECOVERY; KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; LOW-TEMPERATURE HEAT SOURCES; LOW-TEMPERATURE WASTE HEATS; SPECIFIC DAILY WATER PRODUCTION; TOTAL DISSOLVED SOLIDS;

ADSORPTION; BENCHMARKING; DESALINATION; EVAPORATORS; EXPERIMENTS; PILOT PLANTS; POTABLE WATER; SILICA GEL; TEMPERATURE; WASTE HEAT; WATER FILTRATION;

WASTE HEAT UTILIZATION;

EID: 84880423148     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2013.06.053     Document Type: Article

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