Life Cycle Assessment performance comparison of small solar thermal cooling systems with conventional plants assisted with photovoltaics

Energy Procedia

Volumn 30, Issue , 2012, Pages 893-903

  Beccali, Marco ^a   Cellura, Maurizio ^a   Finocchiaro, Pietro ^a   Guarino, Francesco ^a   Longo, Sonia ^a   Nocke, Bettina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Life Cycle Assessment; Photovoltaics; Solar cooling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878193761     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2012.11.101     Document Type: Conference Paper

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