Maximum profit performance of a three-heat-reservoir heat pump

International Journal of Energy Research

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 773-777

  Chen, Lingen ^a   Wu, Chih ^b   Sun, Fengrui ^a   Cao, Shui ^a  

^a Naval Academy of Engineering   (China)

^b UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heat pump; Performance; Profit

Indexed keywords

HEAT PUMP; HEAT TRANSFER; PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0032863718     PISSN: 0363907X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-114X(199907)23:9<773::AID-ER515>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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