Economic assessment of a two-stage solar organic Rankine cycle for reverse osmosis desalination

Renewable Energy

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1579-1586

  Kosmadakis, G ^a   Manolakos, D ^a   Kyritsis, S ^a   Papadakis, G ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Economic assessment; RO desalination; Solar organic Rankine cycle; Specific cost

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DESALINATION; INTEGRATED OPTICS; OSMOSIS; RANKINE CYCLE; SOLAR ENERGY; WATER; WATER FILTRATION;

DESALINATION TECHNOLOGIES; DESALINATION UNITS; ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT; ECONOMIC EVALUATIONS; FRESH WATERS; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; LOW TEMPERATURES; MECHANICAL ENERGIES; ORGANIC RANKINE CYCLES; PROTOTYPE SYSTEMS; REVERSE OSMOSIS DESALINATIONS; RO DESALINATION; SINGLE STAGES; SOLAR ORGANIC RANKINE CYCLE; SPECIFIC COST; TECHNO-ECONOMIC FEASIBILITIES; THERMODYNAMIC PROCESS; TWO STAGES; WATER COSTS;

REVERSE OSMOSIS;

DESALINATION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; LOW TEMPERATURE; OSMOSIS; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 59049088984     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2008.11.007     Document Type: Article

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