The daily performance of a solar pond integrated with solar collectors

Solar Energy

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1611-1620

  Bozkurt, Ismail ^a   Karakilcik, Mehmet ^a  

^a CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Heat storage performance; Integrated system; Solar collector; Solar pond; Thermal energy

Indexed keywords

COLLECTOR SYSTEMS; CONVECTIVE ZONE; DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FLAT-PLATE COLLECTOR; HEAT ENERGY; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; NONCONVECTIVE ZONE; POND SYSTEMS; SALTY WATER; STORAGE PERFORMANCE; STORAGE ZONES; VARIOUS DENSITIES;

HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT STORAGE; SOLAR COLLECTORS; SOLAR PONDS; THERMAL ENERGY;

COLLECTOR EFFICIENCY;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SOLAR SYSTEM; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ADANA [TURKEY]; TURKEY;

EID: 84859438313     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2012.02.025     Document Type: Article

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