Systematic comprehensive techno-economic assessment of solar cooling technologies using location-specific climate data

Applied Energy

Volumn 87, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3766-3778

  Mokhtar, Marwan ^a   Ali, Muhammad Tauha ^a   Bräuniger, Simon ^b   Afshari, Afshin ^b   Sgouridis, Sgouris ^a   Armstrong, Peter ^a   Chiesa, Matteo ^a  

^a KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Absorption chillers; Concentrated solar power; Cooling generation cost; Overall efficiency; Solar cooling; Solar load fraction

Indexed keywords

COOLING SYSTEMS; DIGITAL STORAGE; ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER PLANTS; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT;

ABSORPTION CHILLERS; CONCENTRATED SOLAR POWER; GENERATION COST; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; SOLAR COOLING; SOLAR LOAD FRACTIONS;

ABSORPTION COOLING;

ABSORPTION; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE MODELING; COOLING; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATABASE; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POWER PLANT; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SOLAR POWER; TIME SERIES;

EID: 77955657907     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2010.06.026     Document Type: Article

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