Using exergy to understand and improve the efficiency of electrical power technologies

Entropy

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 820-835

  Rosen, Marc A ^a   Bulucea, Cornelia Aida ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRAIOVA   (Romania)

Author keywords

Electricity; Electricity use; Energy conversion; Exergy; Power generation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953524206     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e11040820     Document Type: Article

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