Enhancement of fresh water production on triangular pyramid solar still using phase change material as storage material

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Sathyamurthy, Ravishankar ^a   Nagarajan, P K ^b   Kennady, Hyacinth J ^a   Ravikumar, T S ^a   Paulson, V ^a   Ahsan, Amimul ^c  

^a HINDUSTAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

^b S A ENGINEERING COLLEGE   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Enhancement; Hourly variation; Phase change material

Indexed keywords

DISTILLATION; PRODUCTIVITY; SOLAR HEATING; WATER;

CHENNAI; ENHANCEMENT; FRESH WATER; FRESH WATER PRODUCTION; HOT AND HUMID CLIMATE; HOURLY VARIATION; LATENT HEAT ENERGY STORAGE; PERFORMANCE; PROPERTY; SOLAR STILLS;

PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS;

EID: 84901269821     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21518629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5098/hmt.5.3     Document Type: Article

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