Comparison of indoor and outdoor experiments on a newly designed air solar plate collector used with the operating conditions of a solar desalination process Original Research Article

The performance of a newly designed solar air plate collector was investigated. A comparison between indoor and outdoor results of the experiments are presented. Graphs of collector efficiency for different operating conditions were established. Solar irradiation intensity, airflow rate and wind velocity were varied to get the collector efficiency at every possible location in a new solar desalination process. The response of the collector outlet temperature and the endurance test on the collector were also tested.