TECHNO-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF A 10 MWe SOLAR THERMAL POWER PLANT USING AMMONIA-BASED THERMOCHEMICAL ENERGY STORAGE

Solar Energy

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 91-101

  Luzzi, Andreas ^a   Lovegrove, Keith ^a   Filippi, Ermanno ^b   Fricker, Hans ^c   Schmitz Goeb, Manfred ^d   Chandapillai, Mathew ^e   Kaneff, Stephen ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Ammonia Casale   (Switzerland)

^c FC Consulting   (Switzerland)

^d Gas Cleaning Division   (Germany)

^e 207 Jalan Tun Razak   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOLAR THERMAL POWER PLANT; SOLAR TO ELECTRIC CONVERSION; THERMOCHEMICAL ENERGY STORAGE;

AMMONIA; CATALYSIS; ELECTRICITY; HEAT STORAGE; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; SOLAR ENERGY; THERMOELECTRIC POWER PLANTS;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

EID: 0032649577     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0038-092X(98)00108-X     Document Type: Article

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