Design and experimental performance of a PV Ice-maker without battery

Solar Energy

Volumn 83, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1360-1369

  Axaopoulos, Petros J ^a   Theodoridis, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Autonomous PV system; Batteryless; Ice maker; Solar freezer; Variable speed compressor

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS PV SYSTEM; BATTERYLESS; ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY; MAXIMUM POWER TRACKING; NOVEL CONCEPT; PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER; POWER MANAGEMENTS; PV PANEL; REFRIGERATION COMPRESSORS; RELIABLE OPERATION; REMOTE AREAS; SOLAR FREEZER; SOLAR IRRADIATION; SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC; STARTUP CHARACTERISTICS; VARIABLE SPEED COMPRESSOR;

COMPRESSORS; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; FREEZING; ICE; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; REFRIGERATORS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

SOLAR ENERGY;

DESIGN; ENERGY USE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; POWER GENERATION; SOLAR POWER;

EID: 67649448992     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2009.03.007     Document Type: Article

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