EXERGY ANALYSIS OF AMMONIA-BASED SOLAR THERMOCHEMICAL POWER SYSTEMS

Solar Energy

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 103-115

  Lovegrove, Keith ^a   Luzzi, Andreas ^a   McCann, Michelle ^a   Freitag, Oliver ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXERGY ANALYSIS; EXOTHERMIC REACTOR; SOLAR TO ELECTRIC CONVERSION; THERMOCHEMICAL POWER SYSTEMS; THERMODYNAMIC IRREVERSIBILITY;

AMMONIA; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT STORAGE; THERMODYNAMICS; WASTE HEAT UTILIZATION;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

EID: 0032641498     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0038-092X(98)00132-7     Document Type: Article

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