Combined desalination and solar-assisted air-conditioning system

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3326-3330

  Gude, Veera Gnaneswar ^a   Nirmalakhandan, Nagamany ^a  

^a New Mexico State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorption refrigeration; Desalination; Process modeling; Solar collectors; Thermal energy storage; Waste heat utilization

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CAPILLARY TUBES; CONSERVATION; COOLING WATER; DESALINATION; DISTILLATION; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY POLICY; HEAT STORAGE; REFRIGERATING MACHINERY; REFRIGERATION; SALINE WATER; SOLAR SYSTEM; THERMAL ENERGY; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); WASTE HEAT; WATER; WATER FILTRATION;

ABSORPTION REFRIGERATION; ABSORPTION REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; AIR-CONDITIONING SYSTEMS; AVERAGE RATE; COOLING CAPACITY; DESALINATED WATER; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY INPUTS; FRESH WATERS; GRID POWER; HEAT SOURCING; INTEGRATED PROCESS MODEL; LOW GRADE; LOW TEMPERATURES; LOWER ENERGIES; MULTI-STAGE FLASH DISTILLATION; PERFORMANCE CURVES; PROCESS MODELING; PROCESS PARAMETERS; SOLAR COLLECTORS; THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE; WASTE HEAT UTILIZATION;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 52949138676     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2008.03.030     Document Type: Article

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