Solar collectors versus lamps - A comparison of the energy demand of industrial photochemical processes as exemplified by the production of ε-caprolactam

Energy

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 681-687

  Funken, Karl Heinz ^a   Müller, Franz Josef ^a   Ortner, Jürgen ^a   Riffelmann, Klaus Jürgen ^a   Sattler, Christian ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CARBON DIOXIDE; COOLING; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC LAMPS; ELECTRICITY; FOSSIL FUELS; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; SOLAR COLLECTORS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CAPROLACTAM; COOLING ENERGY; PHOTOCHEMICAL SYNTHESIS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 0033181190     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-5442(99)00024-9     Document Type: Article

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