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SOLAR DISTILLATION PROCESS [1 record]

Record 1 2008-03-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Water Treatment (Water Supply)
  • Solar Energy
CONT

Solar distillation. The solar distillation process makes use of the fact that water will evaporate from a free surface at a temperature below its boiling point. A simple solar still [acts as a greenhouse]. The sun's rays pass through a sloping glass cover ... The solar energy is absorbed by a black basin in the bottom of the still, ... the heated water evaporates ..., rises to the top ... and condenses. The condensate -fresh water- trickles down ... to a collecting trough.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement des eaux
  • Énergie solaire
CONT

Il est facile de penser à se servir, pour la distillation, [...] d'énergie solaire. On opère à l'aide de bacs à fond noirci, où l'on maintient une faible épaisseur d'eau de mer, au-dessus desquels on crée un effet de serre en disposant des châssis vitrés inclinés; l'eau s'évapore, se condense sur la paroi en verre et est recueillie par une goulotte. [En parlant d'un autre procédé :] le coût arriverait ainsi à être de l'ordre de grandeur de celui de la distillation solaire.

Spanish

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