Performance assessment of a solar pond with and without shading effect

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 65, Issue , 2013, Pages 98-107

  Karakilcik, Mehmet ^a   Dincer, Ibrahim ^b   Bozkurt, Ismail ^a,c   Atiz, Ayhan ^a  

^a CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

^c University of Adiyaman   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Energy efficiency; Shading effect; Solar energy; Solar pond; Thermal energy storage

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE ZONE; DATA-ACQUISITION DEVICES; ENERGY ANALYSIS; ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS; ENERGY PERFORMANCE; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; LOWER CONVECTIVE ZONES; MODEL RESULTS; NONCONVECTIVE ZONE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SALTY WATER; SHADING EFFECT; SHADING MODEL; SIDE WALLS; STORAGE EFFICIENCY; SURFACE AREA; THERMAL PERFORMANCE;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; HEAT STORAGE; LAKES; SOLAR ENERGY; THERMAL ENERGY;

SOLAR PONDS;

EID: 84867413195     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2012.07.001     Document Type: Article

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