A study on Kalina solar system with an auxiliary superheater

Renewable Energy

Volumn 41, Issue , 2012, Pages 210-219

  Sun, Faming ^a   Ikegami, Yasuyuki ^a   Jia, Baoju ^a  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Kalina solar system; Superheater; System pressure difference; System thermal efficiency; Total heat transfer rate

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATE EXPRESSIONS; CALCULATION DATA; CALCULATION MODELS; ENGINEERING PRACTICES; KALINA CYCLE; MASS FLOW RATE; MAXIMUM PRESSURE; OPTIMAL OPERATION; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; POINT TEMPERATURE; POWER GENERATION CYCLES; SOLAR RADIATION DATA; SYSTEM PRESSURE; THERMAL EFFICIENCY;

ENTHALPY; HEAT TRANSFER; OPTIMIZATION; SOLAR RADIATION; SPECIFIC HEAT; SUN; SUPERHEATERS;

BENCHMARKING;

BENCHMARKING; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; FLOW VELOCITY; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POWER GENERATION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SOLAR POWER; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; THERMODYNAMICS;

JAPAN;

EID: 84155165073     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2011.10.026     Document Type: Article

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