Energy and mass balances in multiple-effect upward solar distillers with air flow through the last-effect unit

Ho-Ming Yeh and Chii-Dong Ho

Energy, 2000, vol. 25, issue 4, 325-337

Abstract: Considerable improvement in productivity may be obtained if water vapor in the last-effect unit is carried away directly by flowing air. The theory of a closed-type upward multiple-effect solar distiller has been modified to that of an open-type device, and the energy and mass balances have been derived. The production rate of distilled water for each effect under various climate, design, and operational conditions may be predicted by simultaneously solving the appropriate equations.

Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1016/S0360-5442(99)00078-X

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