Solar utility and renewability evaluation for biodiesel production process

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 14-15, 2009, Pages 3169-3174

  Hou, Zhi ^a   Zheng, Danxing ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Biodiesel; Exergy analysis; Renewable; Simulation; Solar utility

Indexed keywords

ASPEN PLUS; BIODIESEL PRODUCTION; EXERGY ANALYSIS; NEW DESIGN; NOVEL PROCESS; RENEWABLE; SIMULATION; SOLAR UTILITY;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXERGY; FOSSIL FUELS; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

BIODIESEL;

EID: 67651121704     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2009.04.020     Document Type: Article

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