Thoughts about future power generation systems and the role of exergy analysis in their development

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 43, Issue 9-12, 2002, Pages 1187-1198

  Lior, Noam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Exergy analysis; Nuclear power; Power generation; Second law analysis; Space power

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXERGY; NUCLEAR ENERGY;

SECOND LAW ANALYSIS;

POWER GENERATION;

EID: 0036591741     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-8904(02)00007-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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