Solar-powered open absorption cycle modeling with two desiccant solutions

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2768-2776

  Aly, Ayman A ^a,b   Zeidan, El Shafei B ^a,c   Hamed, Ahmed M ^a,c  

^a TAIF UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Assiut University   (Egypt)

^c University of Mansoura   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Absorption cooling; Calcium chloride; Lithium chloride; Open cycle; Regeneration; Solar powered

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS; DRIERS (MATERIALS); EQUATIONS OF STATE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LITHIUM; MASS TRANSFER; MATLAB; NEURAL NETWORKS; REGENERATORS; SOLAR ENERGY;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODELS; COMBINED HEAT AND MASS TRANSFERS; LITHIUM CHLORIDE; OPEN CYCLES; REGENERATION; SOLAR-POWERED; THERMO-PHYSICAL PROPERTY; VAPOR PRESSURE DIFFERENCES;

ABSORPTION COOLING;

EID: 79953106725     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2011.02.021     Document Type: Article

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