Design of a microscale organic rankine cycle for high-concentration photovoltaics waste thermal power generation

InterSociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, ITHERM

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 993-1002

  Zhang, TieJun ^a   Wang, Evelyn N ^b  

^a KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Concentrating photovoltaics; microchannel cooling; organic Rankine cycle; thermal management; waste heat utilization

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATED SOLAR ENERGY; INLET SUBCOOLING; LARGE-SCALE APPLICATIONS; MICRO CHANNEL HEAT SINKS; MICRO-SCALES; MICROCHANNEL COOLING; MICROCHANNEL FLOW; MOMENTUM CONSERVATION LAW; ORGANIC RANKINE CYCLES; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PHOTOVOLTAICS; POWER GENERATION EFFICIENCY; SUBCOOLED; THERMAL POWER GENERATION; WORKING FLUID;

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING; MICROCHANNELS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; WASTE HEAT; WASTE HEAT UTILIZATION;

RANKINE CYCLE;

EID: 84866175792     PISSN: 19363958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITHERM.2012.6231534     Document Type: Conference Paper

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