Techno-economic appraisal of an integrated collector/storage solar water heater

Renewable Energy

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1503-1514

  Smyth, M ^a   Eames, P C ^a   Norton, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); COST ACCOUNTING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FREEZING; HEATING; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; POWER GENERATION; SOLAR WATER HEATERS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); TECHNOLOGY;

EXO-SKELETON FRAMEWORK; STORAGE VESSEL;

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

COLLECTOR; HEATING; SOLAR POWER; SOLAR WATER HEATER; STORAGE VESSEL;

EID: 1842613601     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2003.10.009     Document Type: Article

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