Methodology for the design of man-portable power generation devices

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 46, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 7164-7176

  Mitsos, Alexander ^a   Chachuat, Benoît ^b   Barton, Paul I ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERMEDIATE-FIDELITY MODELS; SPACE-DISTRIBUTED MODELS; SYSTEM-LEVEL MODELS;

ALGEBRA; FUEL CELLS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION;

ALGEBRA; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; FUEL CELLS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 35948988994     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie070586z     Document Type: Review

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