A Refrigeration Facility for Milk Cooling Powered by Photovoltaic Solar Energy

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 467-479

  De Blas, M ^a   Appelbaum, J ^b   Torres, J L ^a   Garcia A ^a   Prieto, E ^a   Illanes, R ^c  

^a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Performance; Refrigeration; Stand alone PV systems

Indexed keywords

COOLING SYSTEMS; DAIRY PRODUCTS; REFRIGERATION; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SOLAR ENERGY;

LATENT HEAT;

PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; DEVELOPING WORLD; MILK; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; REFRIGERATION; RURAL AREA; SOLAR POWER;

EID: 0142248253     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.507     Document Type: Article

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