Optimum operating conditions of solar driven heat engines

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 41, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 1335-1343

  Sahin, Ahmet Z ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT ENGINES; HEAT RADIATION; OPTIMIZATION; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; THERMAL CYCLING; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMODYNAMICS;

CURZON-AHLBORN EFFICIENCY; FINITE TIME THERMODYNAMIC ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 0033727907     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-8904(99)00192-2     Document Type: Article

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