... water/kg dry matter, demonstrating homogeneous drying. Simulated and experimental results of air distribution were found to be in agreement with each other. Using three options for thermal heating (ETC, gas, and dual) and an overall 58% efficiency for evacuated tube collector, the specific energy...

... in Fig. 3 . Fig. 3 Variation of seawater depth with horizontal distance from shoreline near the proposed location Figure 4 shows variation of the specific energy E sp with flash evaporator's saturation temperature T sat at various cold seawater inlet temperatures while all other...