Effects of combined heat transfer on the thermo-economic performance of irreversible solar-driven heat engines

Renewable Energy

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2085-2095

  Ust, Yasin ^a  

^a YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Irreversible; Optimization; Solar driven heat engine; Thermo economic performance

Indexed keywords

HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

FINITE TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; INTERNAL IRREVERSIBILITIES; SOLAR DRIVEN HEAT ENGINE; THERMO ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE;

HEAT ENGINES;

HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT ENGINES; HEAT RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENGINE; HEAT TRANSFER; MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SOLAR POWER; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 33847636703     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2006.11.007     Document Type: Article

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