Combined solar organic Rankine cycle with reverse osmosis desalination process: Energy, exergy, and cost evaluations

Renewable Energy

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2571-2580

  Nafey, A S ^a   Sharaf, M A ^a  

^a SUEZ CANAL UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Energy, exergy and cost analyses; Organic working fluids; Solar organic Rankine cycle (ORC)

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL COSTS; COMPOUND PARABOLIC CONCENTRATOR; COMPUTATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; COST ANALYSIS; COST EVALUATIONS; DODECANE; EXERGY DESTRUCTIONS; EXERGY EFFICIENCIES; EXPANSION TURBINES; FLAT-PLATE SOLAR COLLECTORS; HEAT INPUT; HEAT REJECTION; ISOBUTANES; MATLAB /SIMULINK; OPERATING CONDITION; ORGANIC RANKINE CYCLES; ORGANIC WORKING FLUID; PARABOLIC TROUGH COLLECTORS; PERFORMANCE CALCULATION; PROCESS UNIT; REVERSE OSMOSIS DESALINATION; RO DESALINATION; SOLAR ORGANIC RANKINE CYCLE; THERMAL EFFICIENCY; THERMAL SOLAR COLLECTORS; TOTAL COSTS; UNIT SPECIFICATIONS; VAPOR GENERATION; WORK DESIGN; WORK OUTPUT; WORKING FLUID;

BUTANE; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); COST ACCOUNTING; COSTS; DESALINATION; EXERGY; FLUIDS; HEXANE; JOB ANALYSIS; LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS; PLATINUM COMPOUNDS; PROPANE; RANKINE CYCLE; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SOLAR COLLECTORS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR HEATING; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; THERMAL EXPANSION; TOLUENE; WATER FILTRATION;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

CONTROL SYSTEM; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DESALINATION; EXERGY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; OSMOSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PUMP; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 77955675441     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2010.03.034     Document Type: Article

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