An emerging hybrid multi-effect adsorption desalination system

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Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 30-36

  Shahzad, Muhammad Wakil ^a   Thu, Kyaw ^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 (AD); Hybrid cycles; MEDAD cycle; Multi effect distillation (MED); Thermal desalination

Indexed keywords

EID: 84991386813     PISSN: 21890420     EISSN: 24325953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5109/1495161     Document Type: Article

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