Economic investigation of different configurations of inclined solar water desalination systems

Advances in Mechanical Engineering

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Agboola, O Phillips ^a   Al Mutaz, I S ^a   Orfi, Jamel ^a   Egelioglu, Fuat ^b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

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EID: 84897808408     PISSN: 16878132     EISSN: 16878140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/925976     Document Type: Article

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