Exergoeconomic evaluation of a modern ultra-supercritical power plant

Energies

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 3381-3397

  Wang, Ligang ^a   Yang, Yongping ^a   Dong, Changqing ^a   Yang, Zhiping ^a   Xu, Gang ^a   Wu, Lingnan ^a  

^a NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cost effective design; Economic analysis; Exergoeconomic evaluation; Ultra supercritical power plant

Indexed keywords

AIR PREHEATERS; COAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EXERGY; FEEDWATER HEATERS; FOSSIL FUEL POWER PLANTS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; TEMPERATURE;

AUXILIARY EQUATIONS; COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; COST EFFECTIVE DESIGN; ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE; EXERGOECONOMIC; EXERGOECONOMIC ANALYSIS; INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS; ULTRA-SUPERCRITICAL POWER PLANTS;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84866545489     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en5093381     Document Type: Article

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