Shortage of drinking water is chronic, severe, and wide-spread in the regions of Northern Africa, Middle East, and Central and Southern Asia. Conventional processes like MSF and RO require large amounts of energy in the form of thermal energy (for MSF) or electric power (for RO). Most...

The main objective of the work is to demonstrate experimentally and numerically the performance of a simple solar distillation unit that is based on the multiple condensation–evaporation cycle. The pilot plant was designed, fabricated, tested and simulated at the solar energy laboratory,...