Data acquisition and control of a thermal energy storage and cooking system

EUROCON 2005 - The International Conference on Computer as a Tool

Volumn I, Issue , 2005, Pages 361-364

  Mawire, A ^b   Vag Den Heetkamp, R R J ^d   McPherson, M ^a,c   Zhaadire, E ^d  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^c NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Computer program; Data acquisition and control; Thermal energy storage; Visual basic

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; SOLAR RADIATION; THERMAL ENERGY;

OUTLET TEMPERATURE; THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE; VISUAL BASIC;

DATA ACQUISITION;

EID: 33847778970     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/eurcon.2005.1629936     Document Type: Conference Paper

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