Exergy analysis of the air solar collector based on experimental data

Environmental Engineering and Management Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1367-1374

  Luminosu, Ioan ^a   Fara, Laurenţiu ^b   Pop, Nicolina ^a   Costache, Marius ^a   Fara, Silvian ^c  

^a POLITEHNICA UNIVERSITY OF TIMISOARA   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^c IPA SA   (Romania)

Author keywords

Entropy; Exergy; Irreversibility; Overall exergy efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870013063     PISSN: 15829596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.30638/eemj.2012.170     Document Type: Article

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