Thermal energy storage module design using energy and exergy analysis

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 76-85

  Keshavarz, A ^a   Ghassemi, M ^a,b   Mostafavi, A ^a  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYLINDERS (CONTAINERS); EXERGY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NUMERICAL METHODS; PIPE; TEMPERATURE;

MELTING POINT TEMPERATURE; PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL; THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM;

HEAT STORAGE;

EID: 0344945690     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457630304070     Document Type: Article

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