Optimal design of an "Energy Tower" power plant

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 215-225

  Omer, Eyal ^a   Guetta, Rami ^b   Ioslovich, Ilya ^b   Gutman, Per Olof ^b   Borshchevsky, Michael ^b  

^a TAHAL Consulting Engineers Ltd   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Energy management; Optimization methods; Power system modeling; Power system planning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRICITY; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; SEAWATER; SOLAR ENERGY;

POWER SYSTEM PLANNING; QUASI-NEWTON ALGORITHM;

ENERGY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 40849120150     PISSN: 08858969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEC.2007.905349     Document Type: Article

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